Creative Quotes

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

If we can (generate) the right emotion inside of us, we can get ourselves to do anything. If you don’t have the money, but you’re creative and determined enough, you’ll find the way.

The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition—as making a spark requires two things struck together.

I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are so creative, because it’s not separated.

The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.

To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

People can certainly be creative when they're under the gun, but only when they're able to focus on the work.

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.

People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.

Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

I am young! Being creative and keeping your brain occupied is very sensible because if you don't you die, slowly.

I think that there's no doubt that to work in film is a bit more of a creative journey. It's not that I don't put the same time or heart into something that's on television.

Always push to be creative.

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.

VisiCalc took 20 hours of work per week for some people and turned it out in 15 minutes and let them become much more creative.

Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing... it is the act that is most directly and spontaneously governed by his nervous and muscular system.

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.

I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times.

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.

The key question isn't, 'What fosters creativity?' But it is, 'Why isn't everyone creative?'

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

In our business, except in media buying, there are few economies of scale. Client perception of creative agencies is that the bigger they are, the worse they are.

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

There's nothing more creative I'll ever do in my career than trying to make an hour of TV everyday.