Creative Quotes

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

If you want to look your best, be creative, try some new ideas, and have fun doing it.

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires.

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.

Everything that creative people think and do is from the heart.

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

Say to yourself, 'I'm here on purpose, I can accomplish anything I desire, and I do it by being in harmony with the all-pervading creative force in the universe.

You have to have a thin skin. As a creative person, you have to. You can't get a thick skin.

Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.

I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.

Don't hire a dog, then bark yourself

The cinema camera doesn't make movies; it allows movies to be made. It's the creative people who make it real to people.

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.

There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

I live in a neighborhood that's very family-oriented, so I feel like everyone else is sleeping and I'm sitting up, making music. It's just me. It's a nice time to be creative.

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. I just don't think that everybody is disciplined. I think that's a rare commodity.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.

There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.

I've never met a truly creative person who was happy and satisfied with life.

It's nice to find creative outlets on a daily basis.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.

We are thinking, willing, knowing, conscious centers of Life. We are surrounded by, immersed in, and there is flowing through us, a creative Something ... call It what you will.

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.