Creative Quotes

I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work.

One summer I worked at Estée Lauder, and I really enjoyed the whole creative process.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

I'm really thriving and enjoying being a part of a really vibrant creative team and doing creative work.

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.

I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.

I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work.

As I paint, I realise, while it's something I do very much by myself, it's very solitary, the creative process feels similar to making music to me now, at least as far as my brain is concerned.

In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we’re going to whine or do the work.

Pain is a part of life. It's certainly part of my creative process.

You've got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be creative and get tax rebates.

I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we disagree, I would say.

I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we disagree, in the band, I would say.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.

At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.

When you're a teenager with a creative mind, be as creative as possible. I'd rather you go nuts. Having more ideas is always better.

Every company, of course, teaches you so much humanly and professionally [about] yourself and your creative process.

I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative.

The idea right now - and it may evolve - would be a live-action movie where some of his characters would be animated. To me, this movie is very much about the creative process.

Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.

One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.

If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.

Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

Music is a creative endeavor so I feel the business around it should be creative, too. One size doesn't have to fit all.

All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.

If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative people forward.

The secret to creative freedom is letting go of our habitual certainities.

Coincidences are glimpses in to the creative mind of the universe.

As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.