A Creative Quotes

#1. 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

Isocrates

#2. Like many of the people quoted on this dust-cover, I have not read Carl King's book. I am confident, however, that my review still applies: So, You're a Creative Genius is the best book available on modern cartography.

Heather Anne Campbell

#3. The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.

Chris Hardwick

#4. I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.

Philip K. Dick

#5. One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise.

Thomas Dreier

#6. We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.

Zoketsu Norman Fischer

#7. If the opening chapters of Genesis portray God as a creative artist, then it only stands to reason that the people he made in his image will also be artists. Art is an imaginative activity, and in the act of creating, we reflect the mind of our Maker.

Philip Graham Ryken

#8. My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

Tony Bennett

#9. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Amanda Palmer

#10. The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.

Hannu Rajaniemi

#11. The passion for destruction is also a creative passion

Mikhail Bakunin

#12. Mistakes and failure are not signs of weakness; instead they are opportunities for future success. Failure is a sign of a creative mind, of original thought and strength.

Edward B. Burger

#13. 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.

Robert Mankoff

#14. I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

Malin Akerman

#15. A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.

Paul Haggis

#16. My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him as a creative. I think me and my sisters are living out that side of him as my sister is another creative person, she's a songwriter.

Robert Pattinson

#17. When you are in a creative or appreciative zone, you literally have no access to your inner lizard, to that fear-based, non creative, shrieking little beasty who's so afraid you're going to be a bag lady.

Martha Beck

#18. A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.

Vladimir Nabokov

#19. A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

Alice Weaver Flaherty

#20. We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Kary Mullis

#21. Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.

Anthony Kiedis

#22. A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.

Roland Barthes

#23. Is making a movie true love if you're a creative person? It could be. But in my world, the importance of being a father and having kids and knowing that connection is true love. Making a movie is love.

Robert Stromberg

#24. Remember, there is a creative energy that wants to express itself through you;

Julia Cameron

#25. If you run a business, 80% of your business probably comes from 20% of your customers. If you are a creative person, 80% of your awards/recognition/income will come from 20% of your output.

David Hieatt

#26. Being a creative person. It's so much more rewarding when you find things on your own, to live whatever the writers are writing or to display what the director is looking for. You are the thing that everybody uses to get the story out.

Laura Bell Bundy

#27. Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

Hans Hofmann

#28. The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic of the scientific mind.

Naum Gabo

#29. Producing should be a creative responsibility.

Harold Prince

#30. I think dressing up or down should be a creative experience. Exciting. Fun. For me the key to personal style lies in accessories. I love objects from different worlds, different eras, combined my way. Never uptight, achieving - hopefully - a kind of throwaway chic

Iris Apfel

#31. The individuals in great dyads will be very different from each other and very much alike. These simultaneous extremes generate the deep rapport and energizing friction that define a creative pair.

Joshua Wolf Shenk

#32. I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.

David Crabb

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

Rabindranath Tagore

#34. When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself.

Franklyn Ajaye

#35. Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see.

Elizabeth Goudge

#36. There is a creative act involved by the receiver as well as by the sender and that makes for innovation. Both sides are equally important.

Kirk Varnedoe

#37. Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Bruno Bettelheim

#38. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Ayn Rand

#39. Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

Madeleine L'Engle

#40. I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative literature ... I'm not sure one can be a creative writer and a politician
not a "good" politician.

Gayl Jones

#41. I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.

Peter Berg

#42. Renewing a relationship is a creative act. We make a new relationship. It is possible to build a new relationship regardless of the realities of the old relationship.

Desmond Tutu

#43. Every thought is a creative energy that moves the universe to action.

Rene Gaudette

#44. I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

Nat Wolff

#45. I love design, so it's important for me to have a creative outlet.

Mark Parker

#46. I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.

Doreen Cronin

#47. As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

Annie Lennox

#48. What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

Richard Gurley Drew

#49. There was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth.

Eleanor Dark

#50. My brother is a tax guy, and the way I look at it, it's like he's spending his life saving money for rich people. So I think making strangers laugh, at least having a creative component to your profession, is more manageable for me. I can live with that a lot easier.

Gary Gulman

#51. Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

Edward Hirsch

#52. There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts ... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.

Carl Jung

#53. On the surface he might be callused, but looking through a creative lens, I see layers and textures. He reminds me of a folding chair, closed up and waiting to be shoved in a storage closet. I'm determined to see him unfold.

Katie Kacvinsky

#54. In order to live a creative life, we must give up the fear of being
wrong.

Satyen Raja

#55. What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

Nathan Sawaya

#56. We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

Noomi Rapace

#57. You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#58. With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.

Ernest Holmes

#59. A creative force that either creates itself or arises from nothing, and which is a causa sui (its own cause), exactly resembles Baron Munchhausen, who drew himself out of the bog by taking hold of his own hair.

Ludwig Buchner

#60. A personal (Brand) is more than just a creative name, cute logo or a complimentary card; it's a promise of value, it's a distinctive voice, it' s a core message, it's passion driven by purpose, it's a positive impact that creates an impression

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#61. Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the more soul-crushing experiences you can have as a creative person.

Tunde Adebimpe

#62. 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.

Kevin Sampsell

#63. There are times when creation can be achieved only through destruction. The urge to destroy is then a creative urge.

Bakunin

#64. Positive attitude accelerates your development as a creative person. Believe in yourself.

Nita Leland

#65. I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.

Debbie Macomber

#66. It is as if producing a creative work tears a piece from your soul. When it is ripped completely free of you, the wound must bleed for a while. How similar it is to letting go of a dream, your hope, or your heart's desire. You must open up and let it drain.

Lynn Cullen

#67. To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.

E'yen A. Gardner

#68. If you had an equation detailing the probability of something emerging from a vacuum, you would still have to ask why that equation applies. Hawking had, in fact, noted the need for a creative factor to breathe fire into the equations.

Antony Flew

#69. You are a creative expression of the universe. You are worthy.

Russell Eric Dobda

#70. I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.

Pierce Brosnan

#71. I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

Alexander McCall Smith

#72. Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Bertrand Russell

#73. Believe! Project a mental picture of your goal in life. Believing is a creative force that brings the visible out of the invisible. You must believe to achieve.

Wilferd Peterson

#74. The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

Mikhail Bakunin

#75. Your development as a musician will come to an eventual standtill if you do not develop yourself as a human being. Only by having a creative, expansive and inspiring life can you create creative, expansive and inspiring music.

Carl Orr

#76. The frightening and most difficult thing about being what somebody calls a creative person is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from, really. And especially, you don't have any idea about where they're going to come from tomorrow.

Hal Riney

#77. If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it's mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that's what matters.

Tracy Chapman

#78. Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.

Douglas Coupland

#79. There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

Eric Hoffer

#80. When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outlet for myself. My first two books were created during my pregnancies and after giving birth to my first child.

Josie Bissett

#81. 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.

Mia Wasikowska

#82. Sometimes the right person tells the right story at the right moment, and through a combination of luck and design, a creative expression gains new force.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#83. Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

William Shatner

#84. I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

Juliette Lewis

#85. Once you are truly seduced by profession of writing, you clock in one time ... and never clock out. You dwell in a creative space with the pure joy of embracing the very moment that mystifies others because no vacation is ever taken or desired. Perfecting your craft is your calm.

Carl Henegan

#86. I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.

Alexander Wang

#87. I've always been a creative person since I was young. I enjoyed art, museums, plays, but it wasn't until I was about 10 that my mother encouraged me to choose a career, and it was acting.

Sufe Bradshaw

#88. The recalling of beautiful things, whether they are your own experiences or the acheivements of others, is a creative act. Simple ideas can be restated by rote; but profound ideas must be recreated by will and imagination.

Robert Grudin

#89. I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.

Chad Hurley

#90. 'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.

Laurieann Gibson

#91. I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#92. Achieving goals is a creative process. The first step in the creation of your primary goal takes place in your conscious mind. Through the aid of your senses and/or your imagination, you must form a very clear, concise image of yourself already in possession of your goal.

Bob Proctor

#93. A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

Edith Hamilton

#94. A creative person has to # create .

Katherine Dunham

#95. How we respond to what happens to us - especially the painful, excruciating things that we never wanted and we have no control over - is a creative act.

Rob Bell

#96. I'm a creative guy, artistically with graphics.

Tim Allen

#97. I can act ... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.

Chris Colfer

#98. I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.

Zadie Smith

#99. I didn't have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didn't know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.

Skylar Grey

#100. 'Among Friends' was really well written and had strong characters, and while all the elements were there to make it a great genre film, it also left room for me to put a creative flair on it that wasn't your typical slasher or psychological thriller.

Danielle Harris