Creative Quotes

The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.

It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.

I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.

So that's where it differs for me now, it's the creativity, versus, the raunchiness from back in the days. So I just try to be more creative nowadays.

Today's consumerism has changed things. I think children are much less creative now.

That's something I've always been down with: creative commons and people being able to license their music and allow other people to reuse it and recycle it.

For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.

The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.

Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.

I suppose more than anything, chefs have gotten better, which is great news, which makes my life a lot easier. I can be a lot more creative in terms of the menu.

I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.

People are doing what they can these days and looking for creative ways to sell music.

I don't really have one dish. I'm a very improvisational cook. I sort of like to make things up as I go along. I'm quite creative in the kitchen.

[We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative artist has to be maintained.

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

The different variables involved in anything creative, really, are massive. When it comes together, it just clicks, I suppose.

Hair is really where we can be creative. I have my "game hair," which is always different than how I'd wear it at practice.

Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so I can deviate with purpose.

fiction and lies are both works of creative art, and creation always reveals the creator.

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting.

This is a very connected, tolerant, creative generation, but a lot of them feel really constrained because they've got this big debt.

If you're talking 100 years, there's no doubt in my mind that all jobs will be gone, including creative ones. And 100 years is not far in the future - some of our children will be alive in 100 years.

The need is not for the creation of new analytical techniques specially designed for the negotiation process, but rather for the creative use of analytical thinking that exploits existing techniques.

My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic.

I'm irrational about all things creative and I'm always late!

It was the kind of place you went when your earthly troubles became too much for you and you were looking for a creative way to commit suicide.

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

Generally I'm wide open to people; I love helping them in any way I possibly can. But for me to invest, a business has to have a lot of creative scale; it has to be unique.

Faith is an active creative force.

Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.

If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

I was always interested in dance as a creative art and traditionally dance is taught as an interpretive art.

And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.

Mark [Duplass] is the same person that I met on day one. He's a very smart, savvy, creative guy. If you ever want a champion on your side, it's Mark.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.

Every great tradition has told you that you were created in the image and the likeness of the creative source. That means that you have God potential and power to create your world.

If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again.

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

I get my most creative energy after a show, so I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. I generally do it in a rush. I have to get it out, otherwise I can't sleep.

I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.