Creative Quotes

It's good to see the children be creative. It's the pleasure of the future.

The whole creative process...is putting opposites together into something that wasn't there before.

Recognize that there is a time to be left-brained and a time to be right-brained; a time to be efficient and a time to be creative; a time to work and a time to play.

When I'm working, I'm going to avoid all media. No newspapers, no magazines, no movies, no radio, no TV. I'm just going to do creative work.

If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.

Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special?

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

It's very tough when two creative people are together.

Now I'm able to align my work and creative life with who I am.

It's funny because the voice-over world is definitely another career. It's another outlet to be creative. But, I'm just not invested, in the way that I am with film and television.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.

Get passed the low hanging fruit. Anybody can grab that! Elevate your thought process and your mind and be creative.

You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.

Maybe down the road, I can see myself being part of the creative process, but acting is definitely my first and true love.

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell and only then does it review and inspect the multitudes.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world’s most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy.

Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I am a creative mind, because I still aspire to be one.

the creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly.

You may say, 'That's naïve of you,' and maybe it is, but in my mind, I'm celebrating every kind of woman. That's what a creative person does.

My mom was always making me clothes. We'd go to the fabric store, pick out patterns, and it was a creative process. I heard that word a lot growing up: creative.

Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.

What can I tell you I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.

I think there are still plenty of free-thinking creative people out there. There always will be.

I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying to write a little bit most evenings just to keep the creative juices flowing.

I look for good directors mainly because if you do enough of movies where there's not a real creative vision behind it, you start to turn into a robot and you want to jump off a bridge.

Creative artists have great passion.

Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

I personally just love movies about the creative process.

It's weird how things are really stop-start in my creative process. I can't just turn it on - it just happens kind of randomly and I've just got to ride it when it's good. Surf's up! It's like that.

You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.

Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and the character sketches.

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

With independents[films] you sort of make them on the go and there is that little bit more creative freedom. You don't have the money to slow down!

I just want to be able to be creative.

Trying to be creative, yet having to deal with the day to day - I mean, there is a lot of stuff to deal with. Like sitting at the computer and sending emails.

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

chaos is the first step in the creative process.

If the rules of creativity are the norm for a company, creative people will be the norm.

I love being creative.

To be creative, you have to be wrong most of the time.