Most Creative Quotes

#1. It is the daily task of the creative to be curious and collect dots. The most creative people I know fill their brains, their idea factories, with as much raw material as they can. They have voracious appetites.

David DuChemin

#2. The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

John Cleese

#3. Most creative thing I've ever done? Got somebody pregnant.

Tracy Morgan

#4. I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

Steve Jobs

#5. TV is very much my first love. I love this world. It's where writers have the most creative control, and I just love that.

Melissa Rosenberg

#6. Man becomes his most creative during war.

Clint Eastwood

#7. Colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead.

S.A. David

#8. Creativity is in everyone; it just manifests itself differently with each person. My CPA, for example, is one of the most creative people I know.

Ron Miriello

#9. 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.

Dick Van Dyke

#10. I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.

Gary Shteyngart

#11. Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

Joichi Ito

#12. I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

William P. Young

#13. I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process.

Aaron Rose

#14. Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative writing ... metaphors support lyrics like bones.

Pat Pattison

#15. My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

Cher

#16. The most creative and most periods of my life that were, had the most growth, were the ones where I was perceived to be failing. Perceived success is a, is really hard 'cause it doesn't really, it's not asking you to grow, see failure is asking you to grow.

Ethan Hawke

#17. But if insecurity was the primal source of Hamilton's incredibly energy, one would have to conclude that providence had conspired to produce at the most opportune moment perhaps the most creative liability in American history.

Joseph J. Ellis

#18. I get to delve into some of the most creative experience I've had as an actor on 'Mr. Robot.' I think there's a wide opportunity for actors to do that now more so than ever on television.

Rami Malek

#19. In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design.

Brian Wildsmith

#20. The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#21. Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.

Steven Pinker

#22. Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.

Natalie Massenet

#23. I think people are at their most creative when they're relaxed. I don't believe that tension is good for creativity. Everyone is relaxed and therefore can feel able to express their own individual creativity and lots of ideas come in. It's a joy like that.

Joe Wright

#24. Art is the most creative result of the human mind.

Eraldo Banovac

#25. I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and postdoctoral fellows imaginable.

Bonnie Bassler

#26. It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.

Georgina Chapman

#27. Thoughts are one of the most creative powers we have as human beings. If you hold the mantra in your mind that you are continually becoming more healthful and radiant, that is what you will become.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#28. Learning what to want is the most radical, the most painful and the most creative art of life.

Geoffrey Vickers

#29. People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills.

Teresa Amabile

#30. I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!

Sam Taylor-Wood

#31. I think that all writers feel alienated ... I know that I do ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

John Le Carre

#32. It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his original premise [in special relativity] was that no such medium existed [..] ...

Robert B. Laughlin

#33. I'm my most creative between 3 and 5 a.m. That's the way I've always been.

Marilyn Manson

#34. Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy.

Jill Scott

#35. George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.

Gary Wright

#36. Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#37. Using some economic issues to make one group of people, regardless of race or religion, the scapegoat for all the problems of the country is just the stupidest, and yet, the most creative propaganda scheme that you can come up with.

Immortal Technique

#38. I enjoy being a student and learning. I don't think you should ever stop being a student. That's where the most creative ideas come from. Teaching is a blessing as well because I get to share what I've learned and my passion for creative movement with people.

Derek Hough

#39. For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.

Gish Jen

#40. Haiti is the best cure against melancholy; it is also the most creative place for me to be. My productivity has increased enormously since I moved to Haiti. That's where I write my stories, develop my ideas and write nonstop, so it's a productive time, not a sleepy time.

Jorgen Leth

#41. Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

Elizabeth Bowen

#42. 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

#43. People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.

Teresa Amabile

#44. I think the indie-rock world is very creative. They're always looking for something new, and I think of all the instruments we have in the world, the ones that are the most creative and interesting are the electronic ones. There are so many sounds and plug-ins you can use.

Tiesto

#45. The period of time just before you awaken is the time I have my most creative thoughts and discover the best solutions.

Lisa Marie Presley

#46. I feel like most creative people are total freaks.

Zoe Kravitz

#47. Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.

Cameron Mackintosh

#48. As an artist - I'm sure like most creative people - you have a kind of board of directors that you make your work for. It's a group of people that you have, these friends, and you want to know what they think. In a weird way, you're making the work for them.

Robert Longo

#49. I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.

Christina Aguilera

#50. The Most Creative Shortcut to Success Is to Reevaluate What Success Means to You.

Ernie J Zelinski

#51. You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

Robert Frost

#52. If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.

Deepak Chopra

#53. By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world's most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy.

George Gilder

#54. Those people who are scared of science or are a bit dismissive of science tend to not really understand what science really is, which is the most beautiful, most elegant and most creative way of looking at the world.

Dallas Campbell

#55. Managers are the most creative people in the world.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#56. We have a unique chance to heal divisions, give everyone a stake in the future and set an example as the most creative, innovative and progressive country in the world.

Michael Gove

#57. One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don't know it. For instance, they are requiring everybody to have a college degree. The most creative people I know couldn't deal with college.

Nolan Bushnell

#58. But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

Warren Cuccurullo

#59. Heaven is beyond our imagination ... At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

Max Lucado

#60. Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#61. The top 10% of the people who are most creative, constructive and thoughtful, do not have much to do with churches. To them the canons of reason come first, making faith secondary and questionable.

Joseph Fletcher

#62. Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.

Donatella Versace

#63. I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

Samantha Bond

#64. I've been lucky to work with some of the most creative people and it's true that I enjoy filmmaking and I'm an enthusiast.

Nicolas Cage

#65. If I had 10 ideas and people said yes to all of them, half of them could be crap. But, if I've got 10 ideas and we really only have the budget for one of them, then we have to pick the best one that is our most creative element.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

#66. I think some of the most creative work is coming out of television. I felt it's very immediate and I like that. It's really fast. It's got a pace to it, and that's why I think everybody in my field wants to just do good material.

Charlize Theron

#67. Because when I dream, I feel no fear,
And when I am fearless, I am my most creative self.

Nikki Rowe

#68. When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

Florence Welch

#69. We were most creative when our back was against the wall.

Anita Roddick

#70. America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#71. NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order.

Henry A. Kissinger

#72. America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.

Thomas Friedman

#73. I get my most creative sort of energy after a show. So I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. Generally in a rush, exactly. I have to get it out somehow, otherwise I can't sleep, you know.

Jason Mraz

#74. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer.

John Gardner

#75. I kinda went back to that period between '88 and '94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be. I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio.

Brian McKnight

#76. I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from. Even when I'm at a party, I'm analyzing it and thinking about it in the context of how I would write about it. That side of me never switches off.

Lorde

#77. The most creative approach is often the simple approach.

Phil Cooke

#78. The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.

Deepak Chopra

#79. You can clear out whatever obstacles are preventing you from living your most creative life, with the simple understanding that whatever is bad for you is probably also bad for your work.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#80. At their best, at their most creative, science and engineering are attributes of liberty-noble expressions of man's God-given right to investigate and explore the universe without fear of social or political or religious reprisals.

David Sarnoff

#81. Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him!

Cornel West

#82. I get my most creative energy after a show, so I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. I generally do it in a rush. I have to get it out, otherwise I can't sleep.

Jason Mraz

#83. The most creative or versatile to date ... I don't know, man. That's a good question. I didn't really think about that.

Quinton Jackson

#84. Dreams spark the imagination like nothing else. We have perhaps our most creative thoughts in dreams.

J.T. Holden

#85. On the road and traveling - that's when people are at their most creative.

Nick Woodman

#86. People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in.

John Sculley

#87. I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

Channing Tatum

#88. Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

J.M. Roberts

#89. We must avoid the caricature that science means formula or a lack of humanity in work. In fact, science is one of humanity's most creative pursuits. I believe that applying it to entrepreneurship will unlock a vast storehouse of human potential.

Eric Ries

#90. The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.

John Cleese

#91. Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are best, and the afternoons are only good for editorial corrections, or getting the washing done. Others can only work through the night, drunk.

Deborah Moggach

#92. The most creative organizations prioritize rituals of doing; the least creative organizations prioritize rituals of saying,

Kevin Ashton

#93. In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

Elena Ferrante

#94. The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

Eric Ries

#95. I devote most of my day to writing, and try to turn out at least four pages a day. As for what triggers the creative process, it's a mystery to me! Characters often just walk on the page, and I wait to see what they do and say while I'm writing them.

Tess Gerritsen

#96. It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business

David Ogilvy

#97. Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.

Don Yaeger

#98. Do not think the world will become better in terms of our own inner change. We should rather think we'll achieve this goal only, and only if, we rescue the fact that the ultimate treasure lies at the end of our most positive creative deeds.

Francisco Leon

#99. Of all the things I found puzzling about Sam, this one was always the most puzzling: his sudden, self-deprecating mood swings ... Was this what it meant to be creative?

Maggie Stiefvater

#100. While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative ... the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

Twyla Tharp