Creative Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

We are all born creative. We just got it educated out of us.

The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

I always like to be somebody scary. When I was little, my mom used to make our costumes. She's really creative and would make us great costumes without having to spend a lot.

Believe! Project a mental picture of your goal in life. Believing is a creative force that brings the visible out of the invisible. You must believe to achieve.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.

A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with timber and be creative on that side sometimes as well.

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.

I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

To be creative, first I need to be really organized. If my apartment's messy I need to clean it. It's like before you start doing your homework or studying for a test, you have to have a clean room.

Discipline gives you the freedom to be creative.

I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.

When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

The choices I make - they have to be creative.

Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.

The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.

I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it.

All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it.

In my career, fun becomes a big factor. If something feels like it's going to be creative and be fun - follow your bliss. Is this where the juice is? Then I go there.