Creative Quotes

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

Workaholism is an addiction, and like all addictions, it blocks creative energy.

It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.

What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

I find when I'm touring or when I'm traveling, I just enter this other world kind of. It's much easier for me to be creative and be unselfconscious about creating when I'm home.

I have always felt that I have observed life in a different way to others... Music has always been one creative outlet for me, but now I'm happy to add another one too, that being photography

I am creative in my living space - the designer in me helps that out.

In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

The quiet of the morning offers a perfect time to do a meditation and yoga practice. It also allows time to be creative or to contemplate before the business of the day.

I've not met one person, even if they are not creative, who isn't dysfunctional. I guess artists are just a bit more aware of their dysfunction because it serves a purpose.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.

Creative innovation requires knowing something. You can't just be a monkey throwing paint on a canvas. It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need to know something well enough to make something new.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.

We made music seated on the grass of Brasilia's super-squares, at home, at college. It was a creative time, more ingenuous, when the people amused more themselves, played more.

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

I was supporting other people's creative dreams and I wasn't supporting my own. I didn't feel like I could really serve people having that kind of process within me.

Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.

I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural creative instincts

You are creative. Your creativity may be in a deep sleep, but it is there. All you have to do is wake it up and put it to use.

Druid log July 15: Dark elves are not only quick and efficient killers, but creative and pyrotechnically inclined ones.

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.

I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens to be an experienced writer, a thoughtful editor, and a creative midwife.

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.

It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts.

Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth.

Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts.

Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.

Find Eloy. Smack his head into a wall, dance on his guts... I'd get creative. Spontaneous like.

I think it's necessary to let kids get bored once in a while-that's house they learn to be creative.

I was quite creative at school, and was also interested in fashion , but I was shy - I'm still not the loudest of people, believe it or not.

I think it's important for us to allow ourselves to be in creative bubble when you really need to finish something. You can always re enter the world after, once you feel like you're done with it.

I think Missy Elliot is pretty creative, I mean at least trying to take it to the future.

To me, the creative inspiration is endless and coming in all sorts of different directions at all times.

I work in a creative industry. My work isn't terribly hard, it's artistically explorative, so I have no complaints.

There are always a lot of leading questions and opinions. Of course, our work is creative, and it's subjective.

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.

Although the film industry is a very unique melting pot of creative and business types, both for the good and the bad, I love being able to wake up everyday to play.

Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can't enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A.

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike.

Nobody ever feels like they've arrived. That's just the nature of being a creative type of person. You always feel like you can get better or reach more people.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.