Creative Quotes

Always remember that dreams-your creative visualizations-must come before their physical manifestations.

The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.

You need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep [your] character interesting.

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.

Every task is given equal importance - that way I can pick and choose my tasks based on the ebb and flow of my creative metabolism.

One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong.

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.

We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

The difference with a major label and independent is mainly resources. That's the difference that I feel sometimes where I as an artist would have to be more creative and more patient.

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .

Questions are creative acts of intelligence.

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

We really need to get it together here. I think we humans are so brilliant and creative, can't we try something else?

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

True creative cities produce the legacy of an idea that does what funding cannot do: to foster.

Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time.

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint.

If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.

With more money brings more fear and when you're trying to be creative in a fear-based environment it's dangerous. Then decisions are made out of fear, not what's best for the film.

I love the creative end of acting. But I hate fame.

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

I was surprised by how much I loved Portland. It is so wonderfully creative without being artsy. Great food scene.

Doctor Killebrew was also in the script at one point, and for creative reasons we ended up cutting him.

I want to try new creative things and find refreshing stories. That's how I've come to choose the roles that I've done.

The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.

Learning should never stop for all age groups. We can empower millions to realize the opportunity to help shape a new society of creative 'mentorologists' in all areas of life.

I don't agree with this romantic fantasy that people who suffer from depression are more likely to be artists. I find that I am more creative when I am happy actually.

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.