Be Creative Quotes

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

Donald Glover

#2. To be creative is to look Madness in the eye and challenge it to a spitting contest.

River Fairchild

#3. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

Rajneesh

#4. There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

Ray Bradbury

#5. I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.

Curtis Jackson

#6. I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, and it may not, so I wanted to do something proactive. I've got a brain; I don't want to just sit at home - I want to do as much as I can.

Louise Nurding

#7. At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it, and do something good besides.

Lester Bangs

#8. Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

Paulo Coelho

#9. I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#10. Don't be creative. Don't be stupid."
"That's what Machiavelli said. You guys really have a lot of faith in me, don't you?"
"Neither one of us wants to lose you. Just be careful, Billy. Careful is my middle name."
Black Hawk rolled his eyes. "You told me it was Henry.

Michael Scott

#11. Be creative in thought and action. You never know when it will change your life.

Cynthia Neighbors

#12. Lovely was my compliment. Could you not come up with your own?"
"Lord Paen said compliment her, he did not say we had to be creative about it," the second man pointed out with a shrug

Lynsay Sands

#13. I'm just trying to illustrate that it's okay to be different - not that it's good, not that it's bad, but that it's all right. I'm trying to tell kids to have a good time and to encourage them to be creative and to question things,

Paul Reubens

#14. My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

Natalie Massenet

#15. We can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#16. The Imagination is one of the important stuff to be creative from there to be a creator!

Deyth Banger

#17. If I could have enough money that I know I could buy a house someday, and if I want to have kids, I could raise them - I don't need the money grab. I don't need to have a mansion. I just need to be creative and happy.

Chris Gethard

#18. To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

John Abercrombie

#19. Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.

Akio Morita

#20. If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid.

Christopher Peterson

#21. Be creative! Write, sing, dance, paint, whatever you do, make something for your Maker!

Marja Meijers

#22. The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.

Isaac Asimov

#23. It's funny because the voice-over world is definitely another career. It's another outlet to be creative. But, I'm just not invested, in the way that I am with film and television.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

#24. Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.

Christopher Paolini

#25. A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing.

Kurt Hanks

#26. If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step ... the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"

Dale Dauten

#27. In my career, fun becomes a big factor. If something feels like it's going to be creative and be fun - follow your bliss. Is this where the juice is? Then I go there.

Kenny Loggins

#28. To be creative you actually have to do something.

Ken Robinson

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

Yehudi Menuhin

#30. Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain neural pathways and to establish new ones by learning new skills.

Philippa Perry

#31. I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.

Austin Mahone

#32. Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to nature's most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues.

Stanley B. Prusiner

#33. While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

Gregory Maguire

#34. Women need a space to be creative
creativity thrives in solitude.

SARK

#35. I like to be creative and I'm lucky that I have a couple of different outlets, and I'm lucky that I get to use them.

Jamie Kennedy

#36. Poetry helps deliver messages. Poetry is an art; play with the words, the rhymes and your emotions. Experiment; discover yourself. This is exactly what I expect from you. Be creative, let the words guide you, never hold back, write as it comes, and edit later.

Jude Ouvrard

#37. Learning to be and learning to be creative are two sides of the same coin.

Elaine St. James

#38. I just want to be able to be creative.

Jenny Slate

#39. Don't be creative when you should be mechanical, and don't be mechanical when you should be creative.

Fred Picker

#40. I'm a vegan. But, no one believes it because when you're out in the field, most of your meal options involve meat with a side of something fried. I've learned how to be creative and improvise and can eat anywhere - even a steak house or a gas station.

Nicole Lapin

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

Karl Lagerfeld

#42. To be creative, you have to be wrong most of the time.

Joe Craig

#43. If you want to look your best, be creative, try some new ideas, and have fun doing it.

Kevyn Aucoin

#44. Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.

Connor Franta

#45. I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative.

Christopher Egan

#46. According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.

Robert Genn

#47. Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

Kanye West

#48. I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

B.J. Novak

#49. If you love money and you want to be creative, you cannot become creative. The very ambition for money is going to destroy your creativity. If you want fame, then forget about creativity. Fame comes easier if you are destructive.

Rajneesh

#50. There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#51. Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.

Gary Kemp

#52. When I am in the process of conceiving a story, I make sure it can be told with words and pictures. The story has to be creative, original and interesting in both areas. Many stories get rejected because they feel derivative.

Nicholas Sparks

#53. The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then gotten picked up. I think it's a great opportunity for artists to get through the network roadblock. It just allows us another venue to be creative in.

Eva LaRue

#54. Be creative. Unlock your imagination. Open your noggin. Do anything.

Scott Schafer

#55. You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming.

Pearl Zhu

#56. I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from a very early age I knew that if I wanted to make music, successfully, in any capacity, I was going to have to get sober.

Macklemore

#57. God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways.

Shannon L. Alder

#58. One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

Oswald Spengler

#59. I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.

Daniel Libeskind

#60. Since my kitchen is the most important part of my home, I want to be creative and innovative, not only in its aesthetic, but also in the tools that I'm using to cook.

Blake Lively

#61. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.

Bill Drayton

#62. When you are happy, you are free; when you are free, you can be creative; when you are creative, your divine self comes out.

Jeffrey Fry

#63. Mixtapes are extremely important, especially for New York or North East artists. They allow you to be creative, to get feedback and criticism, but most of all, it gets your name out there. I would say about 90-100% of my success was down to the mixtapes.

Joe Budden

#64. Every time you express a complaint about how difficult and tiresome it is to be creative, inspiration takes another step away from you,

Elizabeth Gilbert

#65. I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

Huey Lewis

#66. You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

Anne Roiphe

#67. Be creative. Use your voice, your community.

Ray Toro

#68. I think from the time I was a kid I've been an entertainer. I've always had the ability to play characters. When I came to California, I was overwhelmed that you could do this and get paid for it, make a living on it, and be creative within this art form.

Matt Schulze

#69. Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.

James Dyson

#70. Limited resources force you to make do with what you've got. There's no room for waste. And that forces you to be creative.

Jason Fried

#71. In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.

Ray Bradbury

#72. To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate - useful and actionable. It must somehow influence the way business gets done by improving a product, for instance, or by opening up a new way to approach a process.

Teresa Amabile

#73. What can I tell you? I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.

Holly Johnson

#74. That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love, and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good.

Julia Roberts

#75. The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and especially in this climate of the music business, you have to be creative about how you promote yourself.

Chrisette Michele

#76. Creative and action are synonymous. You can't be creative. Without taking action.

Steve Fisher

#77. Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative.

Lawrence Halprin

#78. My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

Sienna Miller

#79. What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do for a living is ship.

Seth Godin

#80. It is better to be creative than curious.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#81. I imagined there would be a way to crack the diffraction barrier. But of course I didn't know exactly how it would work, but I had a gut feeling that there must be something, and so I tried to think about it, to be creative.

Stefan Hell

#82. To be creative, first I need to be really organized. If my apartment's messy I need to clean it. It's like before you start doing your homework or studying for a test, you have to have a clean room.

Demetri Martin

#83. Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#84. If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

Louis L'Amour

#85. Hair is really where we can be creative. I have my "game hair," which is always different than how I'd wear it at practice.

Heather Mitts

#86. To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed ... separate from everyday concerns.

John Cleese

#87. We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it.

Jim Barksdale

#88. We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#89. I mean, I like to be creative because it challenges me to try to be better than I am as a person and I hope that in some way that that makes someone else think and feel something about themselves that then has given them the opportunity to grow.

Renee O'Connor

#90. I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

Maynard James Keenan

#91. Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives.

Amit Kalantri

#92. My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.

Bre Pettis

#93. When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

Bill Gates

#94. My hope is to continue to make new music and go with the flow. I think I'll always be creative. I want to keep making good music, put myself into positions where I need to rise to the occasion of playing in front of an audience, and continually get better at what I'm doing.

Vance Joy

#95. Your thought should be creative and not destructive; it should be full of hope and faith for a more excellent future.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#96. Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema ... The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.

Lee Kuan Yew

#97. Be creative, be inventive minded, dream bigger that's the way to the promised land (your destiny).

Euginia Herlihy

#98. Recognize that there is a time to be left-brained and a time to be right-brained; a time to be efficient and a time to be creative; a time to work and a time to play.

Douglas Merrill

#99. A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#100. You kind of have to celebrate the moment that you get to create something that you love that falls into the parameters of a 3-minute-and-20-second song, to try to be creative inside of those parameters.

Tyler Joseph