Jane Alexander Quotes

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

I'm interested in creating new work.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

Don't just consume things, create things

To be creative you actually have to do something.

The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

I believe in creative work.

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.