Creative Quotes

We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere.

The fashion industry is a free world, with creative codes that can be hardly considered sometimes, but it's also up to women to create their own style, and own trend.

[Nathalie Rykiel] knows by heart the genetic codes of the brand, and she also has a very contemporary and creative opinions about it.

I never understood why people take drugs. They're habit forming and they can kill you. I didn't need anything to pep me up or make me feel more creative, and I didn't need them to help me with women.

Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I'm on the move. I'm not creative when I'm jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized.

Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

There are so many clichés in the world, especially in music, that it's a never-ending creative font to just bring two of them together and let them interact.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

I'm not always open to creative input when I have my heart set on a creative idea or a message I want to convey.

What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

I don't have any kind of ideology that precludes me from moving in one direction or another. I just want creative autonomy and I want at least an opportunity that it's going to be seen.

We don't think that someone who effectuates creative suicide and costs the company revenue should be on the lot.

All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.

I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.

When I paint to please other people I tend to lose the free spirit creative edge.

I love improving, I love being creative and I love being my own boss.

The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively.

I always liked to make something creative.

I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous!

I keep a creative group around me.

Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?

Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.

Change is good, and ultimately, creating a new path at this point in my life is energizing, creative, and rejuvenating.

The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.

Sometimes when you have limited resources and you really have to think about creative ways to get around some of these problems, generally the end result is better.

If you are creative, sometimes you give up a lot of things that other people have.

We have to have genius creative thoughts precisely four times a year and on exact dates. I actually write them on my calendar. I write, 'Friday, Nov. 8. Three o'clock. Have a genius creative idea.'

[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.

You must find a more empowering source of comfort, connection, and control than food. Perhaps a creative outlet, helping others, becoming active in an organization, whatever.

The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.

Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.

[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.

I was forgetting that an artist also just stares at a piece of paper or canvas all day. It somehow never occurred to me to connect these two diverse creative modes.

An active and creative reader is a re-reader.

You are a creative center from which increase is given off to all.

Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration. . . .

The most wonderful inspirational chemistry we can use on another is the gift of our love and acceptance. Devoted and unquestioned love has a magic creative power.

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.