Creative Quotes
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.
Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.
The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.
Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.
I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.
I would like teachers to look deep because sometimes kids do have a faade that they put up because they feel vulnerable. Their creative truth may not be ready for their friends to see.
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.
The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.
Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.
The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true.
As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.
In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.
Movement practice gets all your creative juices flowing. It doesn't just release your body, but it opens up your heart and empties out your mind, as well.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.
And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.
Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.
Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.
I think I'm a pretty creative person. I love building things. I love working on my house. Landscaping, stuff like that.
I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.
Anyone can notice wrong answers. It takes the creative person to notice the wrong questions.
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.
Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.
My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.
Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
