Creative Quotes

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to be challenged in what I love to do.

It's always money no matter kind of budget you have, though, it forces you to be creative and not take anything for granted.

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

Positive attitude accelerates your development as a creative person. Believe in yourself.

My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

There are probably times where the creative process is not helped by collaboration.

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.

I've got what I want, and I've got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person.

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process.

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

Creative and action are synonymous. You can't be creative. Without taking action.

Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.

I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

I don't chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative is all about you.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

I would say anybody who's willing to listen to Dark Side of the Moon and watch The Wizard of Oz is already a very sensitive, creative person.

I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don't understand it and I don't think anyone else does either.

You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed.

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.

The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.

The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of creative prose.

I dont want to be a point guard, or a two-guard, I want people to think of me as "creative", I just want to create on the court.

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

Today, the world lost a creative icon. Michelle and I join millions of fans from around the world in mourning the sudden death of Prince.

The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.

Cleveland is a really hard place, it's a very creative place, it feeds you creatively, but it's a very hard place to make a living creatively.

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

We begin to not be human, as we've known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we're confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

Two creative spirits in a relationship, I don't think that's the best way to go.

When we connect to the infinite source of wisdom within, creative new ideas, opportunities, and healing spontaneously unfold.

There is a creative solution to every problem. Every possibility holds the promise of abundance.

The magic happens in the creative studios. But sometimes you're inspired when you're removed from it a little bit. That's when the juice starts to percolate.

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.

When money is lost, a little is lost. When time is lost, much more is lost. When health is lost, practically everything is lost. And when creative spirit is lost, there is nothing left.

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.

I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.

All the things that live within you find their place, in character and story, once you tap into that other space that is the creative writing space.

Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.

Between the creative, open and spontaneous approach to life, and the highly disciplined, pragmatic approach, there's a doorway, if you can find it - and it leads to immortality.

The creative life was the only one for a serious man.