Quotes About A Creative Person

#1. 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.

Shirley Eaton

#2. 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.

Mary Pratt

#3. 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.

Carla Gugino

#4. 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.

Shonda Rhimes

#5. 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.

Osho

#6. The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

Edward Albee

#7. 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.

Francisco Costa

#8. 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.

Riccardo Tisci

#9. 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.

Russell Brand

#10. For a creative person starting out on a career, try not thinking about film or media or whatever. think about money.

Paul Arden

#11. 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.

Nikki Sixx

#12. 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.

Paul Kane

#13. 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.

John Steinbeck

#14. I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

Helmut Newton

#15. As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.

Demetri Martin

#16. 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.

Brad Paisley

#17. As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

Bibhu Mohapatra

#18. 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.

Shilpa Shetty

#19. 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.

Jason Blum

#20. 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.

Vera Wang

#21. 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.

B. D. Wong

#22. 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?

John Galliano

#23. 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.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#24. 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.

Shane McAnally

#25. 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.

Jill Soloway

#26. 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.

Porochista Khakpour

#27. There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.

Jerry Della Femina

#28. 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.

Ester Dean

#29. 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.

Black Francis

#30. 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.

Michael Marisi Ornstein

#31. 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.

Ajay Naidu

#32. 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.

Tyga

#33. 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.

Anthony Hopkins

#34. 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?"

Jarvis Cocker

#35. 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.

Pete Cashmore

#36. A creative person has to # create .

Katherine Dunham

#37. I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#38. I've always been a creative person since I was young. I enjoyed art, museums, plays, but it wasn't until I was about 10 that my mother encouraged me to choose a career, and it was acting.

Sufe Bradshaw

#39. Like the pioneers of old, a creative person breaks new ground daily.

Anna Olson

#40. A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

C. G. Jung

#41. A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).

Frank Barron

#42. I'm an actor. I'm just a creative person. I figure if I wasn't a good writer, I'd take to renovating homes ... not renovating ... decorating homes.

Andrea Gabriel

#43. You need space to try things and create. It takes a long time to recalibrate if you let people pull at you all the time. A lot of stress comes from reacting to stuff. You have to keep a certain guard [up], if you're a creative person.

Pete Cashmore

#44. There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.

Jason Blum

#45. An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

Wayne Dyer

#46. The frightening and most difficult thing about being what somebody calls a creative person is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from, really. And especially, you don't have any idea about where they're going to come from tomorrow.

Hal Riney

#47. Positive attitude accelerates your development as a creative person. Believe in yourself.

Nita Leland

#48. Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the more soul-crushing experiences you can have as a creative person.

Tunde Adebimpe

#49. What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

Richard Gurley Drew

#50. As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

Annie Lennox

#51. Being a creative person. It's so much more rewarding when you find things on your own, to live whatever the writers are writing or to display what the director is looking for. You are the thing that everybody uses to get the story out.

Laura Bell Bundy

#52. If you run a business, 80% of your business probably comes from 20% of your customers. If you are a creative person, 80% of your awards/recognition/income will come from 20% of your output.

David Hieatt

#53. Is making a movie true love if you're a creative person? It could be. But in my world, the importance of being a father and having kids and knowing that connection is true love. Making a movie is love.

Robert Stromberg

#54. A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.

Paul Haggis

#55. My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

Tony Bennett

#56. As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

Mike Shinoda

#57. If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

Rob Reiner

#58. I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.

Taraji P. Henson

#59. The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#60. If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#61. The only differences between people who think they are creative and people who think they are not are their beliefs about their creativity. Start telling yourself that you are a creative person.

Sanaya Roman

#62. When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.

Stephen King

#63. If you want to be a creative person, then you're gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn't a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.

Alec Soth

#64. The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing.

Richard Hamming

#65. It is your ability as a creative person to envision positive change that will make a difference.

Patricia Johanson

#66. If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

Tinashe

#67. For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.

Tennessee Williams

#68. The only option for a creative person was constant motion - a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn't do it any longer.

Meg Wolitzer

#69. To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved ... that day, you die as a writer.

Dwight V. Swain

#70. 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

#71. A creative person will never die ... he or she will be alive in his or her work.

Santonu Kumar Dhar

#72. A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

Katherine Dunham

#73. 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.

Frank Iero

#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.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#75. We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

May Sarton

#76. 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.

Tim LaHaye

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

S.A. David

#78. 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.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#79. The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative ... She's a playwright and she's a musician.

Jazmine Sullivan

#80. 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

#81. 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.

Guy Oseary

#82. 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

Erich Fromm

#83. 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.

Rachel Boston

#84. 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

#85. 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]).

Charity Grant

#86. I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

Ciara

#87. 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.

Sophia Amoruso

#88. 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.

Saint Frances De Sales

#89. 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.

Channing Tatum

#90. 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

#91. 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?

Joan Bauer

#92. 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.

Laura Allen

#93. 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.

Billy Corgan

#94. Whenever there is inspiration ... and enthusiasm ... there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.

Eckhart Tolle

#95. 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.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#96. 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.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#97. 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.

Rajneesh

#98. 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.

Tom Ford

#99. 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.

William Friedkin

#100. 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.

Nathaniel Philbrick