Creative Quotes

I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will. ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature.

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

People always say they can't do things, that they're impossible. They just haven't been creative enough.

My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative.

I think "creative preaching" is redundant.

I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.

We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.

You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff.

TV is very much my first love. I love this world. It's where writers have the most creative control, and I just love that.

I think we're heading into the Creative Age. We've passed through the Agricultural and then the Industrial and then the Information Age.

I care about being creative and productive.

I've got more creative control when I do music.

You are relying on a waiting on other people in acting and films, so to be able to have something that I have full creative control over is really very therapeutic.

To have a creative outlet that you can control is really important because you do a lot of waiting to be cast, then waiting to go into production, and then waiting on set.

I would say Colin Jost is Kanye West because he takes like the creative risk a lot of times, whereas I'm like, "Uh, I don't know..."

If you were really interested in being creative in teaching, it was possible to try new methods and that was really what we did in Goldsmiths - we used the freedom of the time.

Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.

The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view.

The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.

We have a unique chance to heal divisions, give everyone a stake in the future and set an example as the most creative, innovative and progressive country in the world.

I've noticed that sometimes when you keep things a little smaller, it's easier to focus on the creative aspects of what you're doing.

It's an all-inclusive package, when you get to be creative and run a little country while you're on a set and doing it with people that you enjoy working with and you all have a say in it.

Directing is exhausting, but not for the actual directing part, when you say "Action!" and give creative notes. As a director, the exhausting part is that you are a professional answer-machine.

I guess, I ended up finding music to pour my curiosity into. It was my creative outlet and therapy at the same time.

I think of there being two conditions that creative people go through. I think it's fear and curiosity.

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

Even the creative things feel mathematic, almost.

My thinking is very flexible, and I hope that it will remain flexible and creative as long as biology permits me to think and that I will remain a rebel all my life.

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. Have I not told you all thought is creative?

I think God is the creative force of the universe. I think it is the raw material from which life emerges.

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

Just like everything, even the most fun and creative endeavor requires work to be successful, and I'm so sick of working. I'm a lazy person at heart. I never meant to be a go-getter.

I think people at most record labels really like music, but it's hard because everything is so subjective, and everyone's so creative in their own right.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.

I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative.

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.

Jackson [Rathbone] is the most artsy, creative and, I think, the most talented.

Pay attention to the inner voice that tells you when something feels right. Much of your creative problem-solving occurs at an unconscious level.

If you persist in ignoring your intuition, you may find yourself stuck in a permanent holding pattern instead of taking the risks that lead to creative growth.

Choose to give your creative art priority over other things. You can do it.

Unleash your creative energy and let it flow. Relish the possibilities.

You owe it to yourself to make your creative development a top priority.