Creative Quotes

My experience working with lots of creative people is that they don't lose their artistic edge when they lose a fierce level of anguish. They just create from a different place.

I certainly have more enthusiasm when I'm dealing with marginalized people in Japan, and as a creative person I am part of that marginalization.

I need to be creative, make art every day for my own sanity.

In fully accepting your creative power, you honor and respect your soul and remind others to do the same.

Now that I'm in the position I'm in now, I like to take all my creative ideas and put 'em on the Internet for my fans to interact with. Give 'em something to do.

Looking at the creative process is like looking into a crystal: no matter which facet we gaze into, we see all the others reflected.

But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

I believe that my creative mind is my greatest weapon.

I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!

The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.

I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

I believe in creative visualization.

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

Gratitude will lead your mind out along the ways by which things come, and it will keep you in close harmony with creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitive thought.

Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

Re-creative artists are investigators.

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

[I'm] looking for a good balance between digital and creative work.

How can you teach someone to be creative? You have to create yourself.

I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.

I feel like most creative people are total freaks.

Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing.

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution.

It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.

On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.

Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.

As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.

From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has been relegated to TV.

I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative.

Coloring allows folks to express themselves in a creative way. It's healthy.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

Creative energy is the essence of all healing...We physicians do nothing, we only help and encourage the physician within.

I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.