Quotes About A Creative Person

#1. A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously. - Author: Eric Hoffer

#2. In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse. - Author: Robert Fripp

#3. Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. Auto-tuning doesn't do anything for creativity. Yeah, it makes it easier and you can get home sooner; but it doesn't make you a more creative person. That's the disease we have to fight in any creative field: ease of use. - Author: Jack White

#4. I just see in pop culture, music, visual art, books, etc., a real hunger for the new and different, and I think that's amazing. Satisfying this hunger is part of the responsibility of a creative person. - Author: Porochista Khakpour

#5. I think I've always had that struggle my whole life, of feeling a little bit more gender-neutral, feeling more comfortable as a creative person when I'm dressed like a boy, when I'm dressed more masculine. - Author: Jill Soloway

#6. For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do. - Author: John Frusciante

#7. The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon ... They become our legendary heroes. - Author: Carl Jung

#8. If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of your dereliction ... Pound for pound, fantasy makes a tougher opponent for the creative person. - Author: Richard Matheson

#9. I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me. - Author: Shane McAnally

#10. I'm just a very creative and outgoing person and I love being around people and being around music. It just gives me energy. - Author: Paris Hilton

#11. If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles. - Author: Stephen Nachmanovitch

#12. I've lost, but I also gained a lot. I'm a creative person, and no one can take that away from me. I've been told I committed professional suicide because it was the only escape from the terrible pressures I was facing. What do you think? - Author: John Galliano

#13. They found that enjoyment-based intrinsic motivation, namely how creative a person feels when working on the project, is the strongest and most pervasive driver. - Author: Daniel H. Pink

#14. She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the most gracious person in the world. - Author: Ella Fitzgerald

#15. The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift. - Author: Johannes Itten

#16. A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it - Author: Mark Nepo

#17. I've never met a truly creative person who was happy and satisfied with life. - Author: Terence Conran

#18. Mark [Duplass] is the same person that I met on day one. He's a very smart, savvy, creative guy. If you ever want a champion on your side, it's Mark. - Author: Jackie Schaffer

#19. I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician. - Author: Tom Brady

#20. I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame. - Author: B. D. Wong

#21. It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself - PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal. - Author: Vera Wang

#22. The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. - Author: Frank Barron

#23. Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes. - Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#24. Not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure ... of being creative individuals. - Author: Norman Vincent Peale

#25. Creativity needs a problem, and the creative person needs a purpose. - Author: Pearl Zhu

#26. It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person. - Author: Ajay Naidu

#27. The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening. - Author: Louis Kahn

#28. I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way. - Author: Pete Cashmore

#29. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. - Author: Daniel H. Pink

#30. Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty. - Author: Anne Lamott

#31. If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this moment in history, Internet is pretty daunting, like, "Where can I fit my voice in amongst all that?" - Author: Jarvis Cocker

#32. An epic imagination would never make a person forget about his or her creative skills. - Author: Saaif Alam

#33. I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty. - Author: Brandon Boyd

#34. 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. - Author: Lev S. Vygotsky

#35. If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen. - Author: Sylvia Plath

#36. Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person and it doesn't mean you have to be an actor, a musician, or a painter - but I think if you are in a creative profession or a creative business you do have a heightened awareness. - Author: Anthony Hopkins

#37. I'm a creative person, and I've got a lot of ideas. People probably thought that my mentality was quick fame because I made 'Rack City' and it blew up fast, but I have over 1,000 songs recorded. - Author: Tyga

#38. A movie is a creative process from its conception, through its writing, to its execution, to the editing. I think with the best films there is some kind of contribution from one person all the way through that. The best films are made by people who write, direct, and edit, so there's continuity. - Author: Simon Pegg

#39. When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. - Author: Edward Norton

#40. I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion. - Author: Michael Marisi Ornstein

#41. A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. - Author: Gerald Jampolsky

#42. When you're a creative person and you create art with other people, whether you're married to them or not, you're going to run into creative conflicts. If you're a couple, certain inhibitions and barriers are gone. I have those barriers with other people, but I don't have them with my wife. - Author: Black Francis

#43. To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals. - Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#44. I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me. - Author: Ester Dean

#45. There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person. - Author: Jerry Della Femina

#46. The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential. - Author: Joseph C Zinker

#47. The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative. - Author: Francis Schaeffer

#48. I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that. - Author: Lil' Wayne

#49. Ideally, each week, I'd like to have rad, intelligent, creative, funny guests with different takes on the world of music. I will ask them all what their favorite blink-182 song is, and what they like best about me as a person. - Author: Mark Hoppus

#50. Irvine is such a safe, stable, planned community, and I'm a person who has a lot of inner longing for drama and romance. So I think in some way the structure of Irvine made me more creative because I had these boundaries, and I thought outside them. - Author: Andrea Seigel

#51. 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. - Author: Caitlin Thomas

#52. As a visual person, I love a creative resume. Putting in a little effort on the design side will show that you care about making things look good. - Author: Sophia Amoruso

#53. For a creative person starting out on a career, try not thinking about film or media or whatever. think about money. - Author: Paul Arden

#54. And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be. - Author: Russell Brand

#55. I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things. - Author: Ciara

#56. Not everyone is a morning person. Some of us perform better when we're actually awake. If you're also a night owl, take heart. Night owls are fun loving, seem to be more creative, and may even have a higher IQ than their morning person counterparts ([4]). - Author: Charity Grant

#57. I've got what I want, and I've got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person. - Author: Riccardo Tisci

#58. 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. - Author: Shaun McNiff

#59. I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them. - Author: Rachel Boston

#60. You think 24-7 when you're a creative person. And I find pleasure in everything - if I'm in a flea market, I'm there on my downtime, but I'm also there searching for the collection. I don't separate the two. - Author: Francisco Costa

#61. A third way of attaining union lies in creative activity, be it that of the artist, or of the artisan. In any kind of creative work the creating person unites himself with his material, which represents the world outside - Author: Erich Fromm

#62. The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. - Author: Edward Albee

#63. I'm a people person, very approachable. I go out every night, tons of functions. I love all facets of this industry ... Music, film, TV, books, art. I love being around creative people. - Author: Guy Oseary

#64. Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that. - Author: Saint Frances De Sales

#65. The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative ... She's a playwright and she's a musician. - Author: Jazmine Sullivan

#66. A creative person is one who has insight, who can see things nobody else has ever seen before, who hears things that nobody has heard before - then there is creativity. - Author: Osho

#67. I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together. - Author: Shonda Rhimes

#68. As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other. - Author: Carla Gugino

#69. A person's industrious and creative mindset can overcome great obstacles that besiege their existence. Humankind's greatest unraveling is our propensity to panic when confronting the pealing silence of nothingness. - Author: Kilroy J. Oldster

#70. Colonialism in Africa was inevitable since the fittest and most creative person was the one that would be destined to lead. - Author: S.A. David

#71. I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The intellectual is a person who talks about the creative process, but often doesn't understand it. - Author: Mary Pratt

#72. And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing. - Author: Tim LaHaye

#73. We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains. - Author: May Sarton

#74. A person's work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative impulses. A person whom fails to find suitable work that allows their soul room to grow will quickly begin eroding into a withered and desiccated being. - Author: Kilroy J. Oldster

#75. When my creative side isn't being fulfilled, I see it affect me in a negative way and I'm not able to become that father/husband/man that I want to be. So it's almost like this dark half that you have to satiate in order to become full, in order to become a good person. - Author: Frank Iero

#76. When you're a creative person, there are just times when you're not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else. - Author: Brad Paisley

#77. If you have one person you're influenced by, everyone will say you're the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you're so original. - Author: Austin Kleon

#78. 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. - Author: Kilroy J. Oldster

#79. I was a journalist, but I was starving. And I've written fiction, but I couldn't get a publisher. So, I was basically a very frustrated creative person working in advertising, and even there, I have a great idea that client won't buy it. - Author: Jeffrey Zeldman

#80. You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with. - Author: Jason Blum

#81. When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God. - Author: Nathaniel Philbrick

#82. When you go to a studio with something you want to make, or they come to you with something they want to make, more often than not, it's a tent pole. Not something one single person is really passionate about on a creative level. - Author: William Friedkin

#83. As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best. - Author: Tom Ford

#84. I find cooking very therapeutic. As a creative person, I relish cooking because it's such a creative process. You can cook anything out of anything. - Author: Shilpa Shetty

#85. Let me insist and emphasise it because I would like all of my sannyasins to be creative in some way. To me, creativity is of tremendous import. An uncreative person is not a religious person at all. - Author: Rajneesh

#86. Driving a car provides a person with a rush of dopamine in the brain, which hormonal induced salience spurs modalities of creative and critical thinking regarding philosophical concepts such as truth, logical necessity, possibility, impossibility, chance, and contingency. - Author: Kilroy J. Oldster

#87. As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas. - Author: Bibhu Mohapatra

#88. It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well ... problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read. - Author: Richelle E. Goodrich

#89. I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting. - Author: Shirley Eaton

#90. As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress. - Author: Demetri Martin

#91. I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person. - Author: Helmut Newton

#92. Whenever there is inspiration ... and enthusiasm ... there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of. - Author: Eckhart Tolle

#93. A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can't be warped to fit his style. - Author: John Steinbeck

#94. Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today. - Author: Paul Kane

#95. That's the real endeavor: to try to create that direct conduit from the pure consciousness of your creative voice to the person who's a craftsman who can go into the world and consistently deliver new things worth paying attention to. - Author: Billy Corgan

#96. Nobody ever feels like they've arrived. That's just the nature of being a creative type of person. You always feel like you can get better or reach more people. - Author: Laura Allen

#97. Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That's not me. No more. - Author: Nikki Sixx

#98. Harrison wrote a two-page poem about his deep feelings of loss when his dog Filbert died, and Mrs. Minerva, the creative writing teacher, gave it a B-minus. Do you know what that does to a a person to get a B-minus in Grief? - Author: Joan Bauer

#99. 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. - Author: Margaret Mead

#100. I see caring for somebody as a creative outlet. I like drawing little faces and writing little stories and hiding them in places. I don't think it's that hard to be thoughtful, especially when you do care about the person. - Author: Channing Tatum