Creative Quotes

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.

The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per se.

My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.

I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that.

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.

While the creative aspects of my filmmaking style are challenging in their own ways, I have developed such confidence and passion over the years that it has become much easier.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.

This is one of my big things of creative pursuits. You have your idea you want to do, but then you got to figure out what does this thing want to be? You got to let it lead you a little.

I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.

I love the creative outlet of designing, and I love make-up and products and feel like I find so many great products around the world that I want to recreate, so I want to do that or design.

I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably do make-up and beauty and hair and something creative like styling; I really enjoy it.

Marketing and advertising are incredibly exciting and creative functions. They are central to the creation of brands and to the creation of sustainable competitive advantage for companies

Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.

For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

At the start of each new day, remind yourself: I am talented. I am creative. I am greatly favored by God. I am equipped. I am well able. I will see my dreams come to pass.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.

Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story.

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

Over time the energy generated in romance and lovemaking provides the vitality that inspires each partner for enthusiastic creative expression in life.

But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.

I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction.

Panic is an incredibly catalyzing creative force. And almost out of sheer necessity, I found I had to talk about myself and my real life as it is effectively lived by me.

Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.

If you are at Coca-Cola, the creative challenge is one of maintaining - rather than creating - a tremendous level of consumption for your products.

A lot of times in movies, you see the "small town" people, being bowled over by this creative entity or this corporate ideal, and it's not true, at all.

When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.

As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening

Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does.

I try to keep up, and the scientific perspective is always part of my creative approach.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

Mel Gibson is a tremendously talented creative individual who, unfortunately, is also a conflicted personality. He himself would say that.

Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

To be honest, my social life is my work. It's quite boring to say, but I meet a lot of people, and we have people from different creative disciplines. I enjoy life right now, and I enjoy work.

I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting, to me, is the creative challenge. So, different kinds of characters, that's what I just love to do.

I was always looking for a career that could combine my creative interests with my technical side, and it ends up directing films is the perfect combination.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.

My creative process involves reading books and magazines, writing outside, and moving around a lot. I like to pace around when I'm writing songs.

First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.

Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.