Creative Quotes
The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening.
Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.
Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.
The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By unlocking and nurturing their creative potential, we can create a step change in Africa's future.
It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.
Creative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts.
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.
Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.
To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.
The truth is that no matter how many retakes you do, each will be different and that is the nature of any creative medium. There's no such thing as perfection.
The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.
What happens at the beginning of any creative process? Nothing! Creativity requires that we create space and wait for something to emerge.
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.
I'm used to working with restrictions and that's when you come up with the more creative stuff.
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.
Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.
My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.
Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these essential elements for business.
I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.
But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process
Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get.
To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.
Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.
Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.
I try to live right. I always try to adhere to what I think is right, and that, to me, is the most important part of creative work.
Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.
I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.
The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.