Creative Quotes
Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.
I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom.
Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.
Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses.
The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.
Jesus clearly said that you can do all that he did if you can believe, if you can center yourself in the creative flow, as he was always centered.
What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.
The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.
Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.
The secret to a happy life is to recognize that no matter what the situation, there's a creative opportunity in it. Also, finding meaning and purpose in your life to make a contribution.
No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.
The laws are very simple: thought is creative; fear attracts like energy; love is all there is.
No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.
I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
I never really followed the traditional route when it comes to what people probably expect as a solo artist goes, but that's just me. It's my own creative output and it's my expression.
Acting runs through my blood. There is some sort of creative desire to express myself and I would need that outlet. Otherwise I would be a nightmare to live with
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.
Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.
Get in touch with yourself. The fountain of creativity begins with the stream of conscious thought flowing inside you. Open the floodgate and creative ideas come rushing out.
A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.
Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.
Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic of the scientific mind.
Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.
The person who makes all cares into one care the care for simply staying present will be cared for by that presence which is creative love.
When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.
It's cool that you hear something, but what did you feel and what was your tactile and kinesthetic response to it? Those songs and creative sessions mean the most.
It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.
Never give up. Never stop being creative in finding ways to get exposure. Also, prepared anytime and all the time. You never know who you will run into.
Everyone is a creative agent. ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless.
That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.
It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself.
If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles.
Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.
A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.