Top 100 Creative Act Quotes
#1. In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?
Adolf Hitler
#2. Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy of the moment. The products of creativeness are within time, but the creative act itself lies outside time.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#3. I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated than the game's rules; both art and actively solicited perceptions are but special cases of the recurring creative act to which we owe our existence.
Konrad Lorenz
#4. Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy.
Stewart Stafford
#5. Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.
Neville Goddard
#6. 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.
Twyla Tharp
#7. The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
Marcel Duchamp
#8. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.
Ram Dass
#9. Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?
Andrei Tarkovsky
#10. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.
George Lois
#12. The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive complex, character-filled novels. No
matter, the creative act is the same, and it is an act of faith.
Madeleine L'Engle
#13. Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own.
Mary Ruefle
#14. I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Norman Mailer
#15. If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the yield of our own creative future, they become goals, intentions and processes very much in reach rather than the shadows of childlike, superstitious mythology.
Douglas Rushkoff
#16. To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.
Margaret Mead
#17. What is your idea of you? Who is it that you have decided to become? If your greatest work of art is the life you live, and ultimately life is a creative act, what life will you choose to leave behind as your masterpiece?
Erwin Raphael McManus
#18. Failure is built into creativity ... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.
Saul Bass
#19. Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.
Carl Jung
#20. In its essence, a meal is a creative act that has its genesis in the mind of someone who cares enough to plan it, gather ingredients and labor over its creation.
Andi Ashworth
#21. What if the creative act is not an act against God but a reflection of His image within us?
Erwin Raphael McManus
#22. In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.
David Gray
#23. Each creative act is the universe incarnating itself as one, and there is nothing above it by way of final condition.
Alfred North Whitehead
#24. Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?
Erwin McManus
#25. I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
Sam Taylor-Wood
#26. Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense - the creative act.
Kenneth Rexroth
#27. The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
#28. In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.
Marcel Duchamp
#29. So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
Rowan Williams
#30. The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act.
Frank Barron
#31. The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.
Arthur Koestler
#32. Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.
Twyla Tharp
#33. Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.
Henri Matisse
#34. The event, in its emergence, poses its own premises, determining that they were the conditions for its realization. This transition is always the result of a salto mortale, which is a creative act in the sense that it gives the preceding links in the chain of events their meaning.
Stathis Kouvelakis
#35. It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
Arthur Erickson
#36. The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.
Charlie Kaufman
#37. The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.
Rollo May
#38. There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.
Alan Watt
#39. As any mom knows, having a baby is an extremely creative act and to love and create a baby, it's on par with any other creative act that we could come up with.
Ani DiFranco
#40. Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.
Leo Buscaglia
#41. It is imperative to bear in mind that human creativity is not a claim or a right on the part of man, but God's claim on and call to man. God awaits man's creative act, which is the response to the creative act of God.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#42. I root myself and my worship curation in the knowledge that because God is the ultimate creator, then everything we do imperfectly but sincerely reflects that ultimate creative act and its originator.
Jonny Baker
#43. It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.
Robert Motherwell
#44. If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.
Antoni Tapies
#45. Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.
Lev S. Vygotsky
#46. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
George Lois
#47. The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#48. The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#49. I would say that the "masterpiece" was the creative act itself and not a particular work which happened to please a large audience and be accepted as the very body of Christ.
Henry Miller
#50. The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
Nadine Gordimer
#51. 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
#52. It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
Charles Eames
#53. The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.
Joy Harjo
#54. 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
#55. By the creative act, however, we are able to reach beyond our own death. This is why creativity is so important and why we need to confront the problem of the relationship between creativity and death.
Rollo May
#56. To tell the truth is a super avantguarde creative act
El Roto
#57. It could be argued that the reaction to a work of art is a creative act which is the counterpart of the action of the artist.
Frank Willett
#58. Reading a good comic is a creative act. Watching a film is often a more passive experience, and since I'm interested in engaging that conversational aspect of creativity, I'm trying to find ways of achieving that in my films.
Dave McKean
#59. During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.
Asger Jorn
#60. 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
#61. Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.
Arthur Koestler
#62. Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling of connection. It could just be the colour. But it is something that someone other than you has seen and felt. It is momentous. It is magic.
Sara Genn
#64. I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.
Tim Crouch
#65. By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.
Rollo May
#66. The right creative act makes its own laws, and always will do.
John Piper
#67. Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
Edward Hirsch
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see.
Elizabeth Goudge
#71. You need to be passionate about the creative work that you're doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from how people react to it or how it does. Those things should be secondary, and primary should be your love of the creative act.
Veronica Roth
#72. The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.
Michael Leunig
#73. Every creative act is open war against The Way It Is. What you are saying when you make something is that the universe is not sufficient, and what it really needs is more you. And it does, actually; it does. Go look outside. You can't tell me that we are done making the world.
Jerry Holkins
#74. Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.
Christopher Dawson
#75. Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
Rollo May
#77. Empathy is a creative act. It is the act of imagining ourselves not only in another's shoes, but perhaps inhabiting their very heart and soul.
Michele Jennae
#78. I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.
Tom Shadyac
#79. The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
Deepak Chopra
#80. If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.
James Dyson
#81. The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
Joseph Campbell
#82. Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#83. But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's a myth - that the first draft is more creative and everything after that is ruining creativity.
K.M. Soehnlein
#84. Of course, after the creative act no one cared about follow-through. That was beneath them.
Carol S. Dweck
#85. The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.
Lawrence Halprin
#86. Behind every creative act is a statement of love. Every artistic creation is a statement of gratitude.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#87. Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
Ben Okri
#88. The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.
Lukas Foss
#89. I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.
Erwin McManus
#90. The stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act,
Austin Kleon
#91. To voice something you're feeling and put observations into words with another person who is totally present is a creative act embodying soul and love.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
#92. After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.
Etty Hillesum
#93. Enthusiasm is when the universe creates through you. You are involved in a creative act. You are bringing something new into this world. When that energy comes in, you feel an intense aliveness that flows into what you do. That is enthusiasm.
Eckhart Tolle
#94. A creative act enhances the beauty of the world; it gives something to the world, it never takes anything from it. A creative person comes into the world, enhances the beauty of the world - a song here, a painting there. He makes the world dance better, enjoy better, love better, meditate better.
Rajneesh
#95. Entrepreneurship is the ability to create and build from a vision practically anything; fundamentally it is a human, creative act.
Jeffry A Timmons
#96. My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
Atom Egoyan
#97. My life is a creative act
like a painting, or a concerto.
Ram Dass
#98. The creative act of the artist lifts him above himself by demanding full surrender. No one puts words on paper or paint on canvas, doubting. If one doubts, one does so five minutes later ...
Czeslaw Milosz
#99. I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.
Jeff Garlin
#100. Your reactions, whether positive or negative, are creative of future circumstances. In your imagination, you can hear words congratulating you on getting a wonderful new job. That imaginal act now goes forward and you will encounter this pleasant experience in the future.
Neville Goddard
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