Creative Quotes

The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

If I don't stay creative and if I don't stay in the studio and keep writing and recording, I get kind of depressed. I can't quite remember what I'm supposed to be doing with myself.

Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

The most attractive thing that I've seen in the creative realm is the enthusiasm in people that does not seem to burn out. That's what I'm after.

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

You are lucky if you have one or two epiphanies in your life, particularly a creative one.

...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.

Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.

You dont do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.

It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.

I'm a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning - you never know what you're gonna get in my shake... fruit? Peanut butter? Ice-cream?

It's always dangerous when boring people think they're creative.

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.

When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.

It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.

I need to trust myself and go where my instincts tell me, and to be as wild and free as possible in my creative decisions.

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.

You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found.

People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles.

Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.

The danger lies in unconventional experiments signaling for a general license to do as they please, and pass off sloppy workmanship as creative intention.

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.

I've always been creative, I think.

Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

I think colors are miraculous. We live in a universe that is extremely creative and magical. We become happier as we appreciate these things in nature.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.