Browsing Topic Best Creative Block Quotes

What’s wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods–even extended ones–of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?

When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out – so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don’t need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.

A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.

There’s no excuse for having a mental or creative block in sound. You can just go out and collect things in the real world – they make the sound, not you. It’s very restricting to always use a library for sound effects. It’s much more interesting and freeing to go out and record new sounds because you never know what you’re going to get.

In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly… These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.