Top 100 Life Creative Quotes
#1. The American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.
Margaret Halsey
#2. The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops
Teju Cole
#3. If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.
Elizabeth Lesser
#4. Open your creative heart like an unfurling flower and petal and share your exquisiteness.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#5. Oftentimes we don't manifest what we want in our lives, because our energy is too focused on what others are doing in their lives. This lack of focus in our own life, dilutes our energy and we leak our creative potential into other people's soul experience.
Sabrina
#6. Nobody should force you to do a bad piece of work in your whole life - no client, no creative director, nobody. The job isn't to please the client; the job is to produce something for the client that makes them incredibly successful.
George Lois
#7. The word 'question' is derived from the Latin quaerere 'to seek,' which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions are useful guides.
Paul A. Kaufman
#9. When we C things correctly, life becomes Creative instead of reaCtive.
Donald Walsch
#11. I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.
Anthony Hopkins
#12. There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.
Caitlin Thomas
#13. Let the juices that are stirred into new life flow at this creative bloodletting of our artistic beings. (Zoltan Galos)
Z.J. Galos
#14. Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.
Ian Somerhalder
#15. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.
Cynthia Heimel
#16. I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.
Paul Dano
#17. I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.
[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]
Cormac McCarthy
#18. A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.
Shaun McNiff
#19. The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
Aberjhani
#20. The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. No astrophysicist would deny the possibility of life. I think we're not creative enough to imagine what life would be like on another planet. Show me a dead alien. Better yet, show me a live one!
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#22. At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.
Wislawa Szymborska
#23. You are the only thinker in
your world and your thought
is creative. Whatever you think
about the other person, you are
also creating in your life.
Joseph Murphy
#24. Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.
Don Roff
#25. Engaging in new creative projects keeps me energized. I feel deeply grateful for all of the opportunities that life has given me.
Emily Saliers
#27. Success is a creative journey with meaning and purpose.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Let us not fear our wild thoughts for they can give rise to wondrous contemplation, creative endeavour, life changing ideas, momentous bliss.
Jay Woodman
#29. I love writing. I love getting lost in creative projects when I'm going through a tough transition in life. I always keep in mind that it's not the first time something painful has happened, and just like I got through other troubles, the one at hand will pass as well.
Melanie Iglesias
#30. I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.
Stewart Butterfield
#31. A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.
Tom Wujec
#32. Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked.
Michael Winter
#33. What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.
Courteney Cox
#34. Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.
Angus MacLean
#35. A willingness to let go of an old self and allow creative thoughts to remake a person into a better version of oneself requires an act of courage.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#36. My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.
Pedro Almodovar
#37. Panic is an incredibly catalyzing creative force. And almost out of sheer necessity, I found I had to talk about myself and my real life as it is effectively lived by me.
John Hodgman
#38. A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner - continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you - is a fine art, in and of itself.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#39. Learning what to want is the most radical, the most painful and the most creative art of life.
Geoffrey Vickers
#41. Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.
Julia Cameron
#42. The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.
Alexey Brodovitch
#43. If you want to live a creative life, get efficient at failing.
Matthew Donnelly
#44. When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break.
Art Wolfe
#45. Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.
Jo Deurbrouck
#46. The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
John Updike
#47. Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.
Guido Palau
#48. Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.
Hugh Mackay
#49. It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.
Sanober Khan
#50. We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal.
Patti Digh
#51. The advice I would give to my younger self is very, very simple: Stop burning the candle at both ends and renew your estranged relationship with sleep. You will be more productive, more effective, more creative, and more likely to enjoy your life.
Arianna Huffington
#52. I've noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from including the intellectual in their creative material way more than you would believe.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#53. There is not ultimate breakthrough; what we find in the development of a creative life is an open-ended series of provisional breakthroughs. In this journey there is no endpoint, because it is the journey into the soul.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#54. Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
William Goldman
#55. The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.
Paul Tillich
#56. Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.
Moira Kelly
#57. Artfulness is not simple entertainment,
especially during upheaval,
unleashing creative life is sacred duty.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#58. I felt that I had entered one of the most creative periods of my life. But it was neither balanced nor sustainable, and I sensed that I was quickly approaching a crossroads in my life.
Elle Luna
#59. Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in rhythmical bliss with nature.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#60. To be creative is to look Madness in the eye and challenge it to a spitting contest.
River Fairchild
#61. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.
Rajneesh
#62. One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy ... or you can be lame.
Marc Webb
#63. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing
#64. The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein
#65. The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.
Ernest Becker
#66. Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they're all a continuum - the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression.
John Darnielle
#67. Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater ... when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#68. When I create music, it is a reflection of my soul, my experiences in life and my relationships with other people and cultures. Psychology, and understanding who we are as people in this world, is present in almost every creative thought I have.
Yanni
#69. Expectations have a creative power in it, so expect what you want in life.
Debasish Mridha
#70. Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law.
Lara Biyuts
#71. When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday life.
Denise Linn
#72. Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.
Jan Brett
#73. I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.
Marion Cotillard
#74. If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning ... The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living.
Marion Woodman
#75. There are no "great" subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.
Richard Selzer
#77. Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do.
Fennel Hudson
#78. Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Leo Burnett
#79. Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.
Tom Althouse
#81. There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.
Cate Blanchett
#82. I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I've known are also men of great wit.
Alan King
#83. From this point of view the hero is symbolical of that divine creative and redemptive image which is hidden within us all, only waiting to be known and rendered into life.
Joseph Campbell
#84. Inside you resides an ocean of creative mind, which is bigger than all the land in this world. So cultivate your land to produce all the goods you and your friends need.
Debasish Mridha
#85. Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning and enrichment, emotion and cognition.
Paul Kurtz
#87. Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.
Heather Sellers
#88. In order to live a creative life, we must give up the fear of being
wrong.
Satyen Raja
#89. 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
#90. Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth.
Khalil Gibran
#91. Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.
Christie Hefner
#92. Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms
Rabindranath Tagore
#93. Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
Michael J. Gelb
#94. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.
Barbara Kingsolver
#95. I don't paint what people expect,
I paint what my heart yearns to express.
Nikki Rowe
#96. 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
#97. When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
Stephen Koch
#98. There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#99. I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.
Kelly Clarkson
#100. The secret to a happy life is to recognize that no matter what the situation, there's a creative opportunity in it ... find meaning and purpose in your life to make a contribution.
Deepak Chopra
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