Creative Quotes

I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

I try and keep busy with something, but I also give myself permission to be busy with something that is creative and rewarding, not just the errands to the dry cleaner.

I would love to think there is a direct relationship between coffee and genius, but they've done studies, and if anything, caffeine probably makes you a little less creative.

Having a camera is a really easy and quick way to indulge in your creative side.

It's taken me a long time to appreciate that my intelligence is greater than what I was told and that I am very creative, and I see in pictures.

I'm really happy with everything that I've been fortunate enough to do and with the creative outlets I've been blessed to have.

Get Creative - You Will Surprise Yourself and Change the World!

The Most Creative Shortcut to Success Is to Reevaluate What Success Means to You.

Having a great deal of opportunity proves nothing. Opportunity without creative action is like a brand new Ferrari without an engine. You possess something valuable, but it won't get you anywhere.

Running a label in 2013, you don't do it for any financial purpose, you do it for all the amazing creative aspects of what you can achieve.

I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession now.

All the women in my family were very creative.

My nine-year-old daughter is very creative and colorful and trendy.

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

As long as I can stay creative and used my mind, it can be 20 hours a day. I sleep four hours, so I've got 20 hours.

Sometimes people, their creative drive comes from an energy to try to heal themselves.

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.

Love is an act of imagination. For some of us, it will be the greatest creative triumph of our lives.

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think well draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.

I would love to work with Guillermo del Toro and J.J. Abrams. I think they are creative geniuses that are constantly producing great work, and they're two people that I would just love to work with.

Amazons Jeff Bezos, Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'

The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich with possibilities.

When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself.

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.

Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that you're in.

In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.

I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.

I'm not a fashionista - I adore creative and original people with their own style.

All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

There's no such thing as being alone in the universe, and so there's no such thing as creating alone. Everything - every impulse, every creative gift of beauty, everything is a co-creation.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

Are you willing to take the Big Leap to your ultimate level of success in love, money, and creative contribution?

I have a very, very creative family.

I discover methods for myself and then read books that describe 'my' method. This leads me to believe that the creative well is shared in some magical way.

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state.

I think when you get to export your creative impulse into something, it kind of lessens that busy energy that can be so confrontational and pissy.