Creative Quotes

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

All creative activity begins with movement.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

Of course, from time to time, I want to do everything myself and be more involved on my own with the creative process. But I don't mind the collaboration at all.

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.

There hasn't been one moment in my career where I felt I didn't have any control over the creative aspects of my records.

People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.

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.

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.

It is not true that men prefer foolish women. Rather they prefer women who can simulate foolishness whenever necessary, which is the very core of intelligence.

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.

Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.

Belief releases creative powers.

One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.

My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.

When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday life.

Sometimes I think I should get another job, and do this only for its own purpose. It's important to separate creative expression from making money.

All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer and if he gets a little creative he'll never fly again.

The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.

As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

The only thing I know for sure about the creative process is it always comes back. Magically. When there are no creative juices and nothing is coming to me - if I wait - it comes!

Happiness should be something which results from the creative, genuine, intense relatedness - awareness, responsiveness, to everything in life - to man, to nature.

When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.

Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

When you don't have much money, you get creative. There's so much money that gets wasted on big movie sets. But when you don't have much money, you improvise.

The most vital, creative, and positive thoughts are those stated in the Bible. Its words are alive and form powerful thought processes.

Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.

None of us are as creative as all of us.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.

If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language