Creative Quotes

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.

My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work, by default, is going to be judged by people.

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't quite gotten corporatized yet.

What I wanna do with Methods is keep that around as sorta my freak out, creative free for all- anything goes project.

The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.

I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.

While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.

Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.

If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well, and you will see that it is true.

The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making 'Star Trek.' But most of the time, I don't think about it.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

I write to believe in goodness.

People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.

Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.

In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.

DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?