Creative Quotes

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.

For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.

Everyone should in some way be creative, irrespective of the quality of that which he creates.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, In the beginning was the word. In the same way, your words have creative power.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion.

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is

I hold no emotions while I am in there... in there it is just calm and creative.

Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .

Today I fulfill my creative side. I want to bloom wherever I am planted!

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.

In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

The urge to destroy is a creative urge.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

Encourage kids to be creative without worrying about being perfect.

Theres a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.

We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.

An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

When in organism there are cancer cells, they have to be removed, not helped because they're "so young" and "so creative".

When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky.