Creative Quotes

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

All forms of birth--physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional--bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life spirit birthing all, the seen and the unseen.

Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University.

I was in such a creative groove after turning in my last book (The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year) that I decided to keep writing in the hope that I'd one day do a sequel.

On lower budget things you're still working collaboratively, but the investment and your level of creative importance is higher on something like this.

As any mom knows, having a baby is an extremely creative act and to love and create a baby, it's on par with any other creative act that we could come up with.

When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.

It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

Breaks are good because you need breaks to be more creative. It's hard to come up with that creativity and the stamina for that creativity, all the time.

Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

I like to deal with my dark side in a creative way, and just sing about killing people instead of actually doing it.

I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement, you know, people editing themselves.

I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.

A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature works of others especially famous persons.

I'm always looking for new ways to spread my creative wings.

I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way.

People get very creative if you include them.

Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV.

I also like different records of mine for creative purposes and metaphorically wise.

My goal is to embrace the people, the 'natural resources' of Israel, and to build businesses with the creative Israelis.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

I like movies that have strong personalities, and Michel Gondry is so creative that his films are always something special to watch.

Even if the dramatic scenes are really hard, if you're happy with what you have and it's been creative and you had a good time with the people you worked with, that's a good day.

By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.

If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.

Creation, like destruction, always seems to get a little out of hand; otherwise it could hardly be called creative.

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.

I doubt anybody would have pushed me [on the music]. When I was at Sony nobody ever gave me any creative suggestions on the music.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

We don't have a rooting interest. We have an interest in watching people excel and then coming up with creative ways to describe it.

To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.

I just love being on the ocean and being creative on the waves and the feeling you get when you're surfing. All around it's beautiful and fun.

My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there.

Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.

Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

You have to lean into the turn. On every creative aspect, you have to lean into what's working.

Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

These are economic issues that should get resolved. There are creative solutions to every problem. Hopefully between the lending institutions and the city, we'll be able to find creative solutions.

In the creative sense, I'm looking forward to collaborating with people I have mutual respect for to create some really good work.

A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.