Creative Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The starting point for creativity is silence... the creative soil of silence, where can be found the seed-states of all things.

I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.

Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.

The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you.

If you can change your mind, you can change the world. Before you can be creative, you must be courageous. Creativity is the destination, but courage is the journey.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.

I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.

Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.

Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

As a kid I was goofy and creative and sensitive. I like to think I'm all of those now too - just with wrinkles.

As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.

The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

Spiritual energy-the energy that comes from pure consciousness-is the creative energy of the universe.

I love creative people.

I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.

It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

A cook is creative, marrying ingredients in the way a poet marries words.

You must spend time every day, even if it is just a few minutes, in practice of creative envisioning.

I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.

There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.

I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?

It was amazing. You don't have a choice but to play your best. They force you do do that because they're smart and that's the fun part for me, I'm being challenged to think faster and be creative.

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.

The way you look at the world determines how creative you can be.

Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks.

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

Don't be creative when you should be mechanical, and don't be mechanical when you should be creative.

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.

In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in the afternoons.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

I'm attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there's no shortage of that in Los Angeles.

The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.