Creative Quotes

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

I learned at a young age to dribble with both hands, and that allows me to be more creative when I go against bigger and stronger opponents.

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.

Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: (1) stop us in our tracks, or (2) force us to get creative.

In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

Find a space where you can be creative and a place where you are open for free thinking, you want to enjoy what you are doing and do what you are best at.

I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.

I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.

Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.

The creative person finds himself in a state of turmoil, restlessness, emptiness, and unbearable frustration unless he expresses his inner life in some creative way.