Creative Quotes

Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? The answer is always creativity; the answer is always art.

The essence of being human is being creative.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

People are generally badly advised when they're starting out in the creative field.

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?

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, [my writing] hasn't changed. The creative search, and the fragments that I collect, reflects that.

Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.

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

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

There is a creative act involved by the receiver as well as by the sender and that makes for innovation. Both sides are equally important.

If during creative processes the desire for money and fame comes before passion and joy, the chances for a big hit decrease considerably, at least in my experience.

Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.

Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences.

You've got to protect whatever creative talent you have left.

There is no room for being creative in today’s business... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient.

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

I wasn't taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 - there was a good feeling in the air. It was a very creative period for everyone.

The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.

We are the products of a highly intelligent and creative supreme being.

As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake - and then you can have a second cake if you wanted to.

...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.

No one can ever overcome anything until his thoughts are creative and positive.

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 enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative... be outrageous!

I don't think I'm particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative.

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