Top 100 Quotes About Creative Life
#1. The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.
Carl Jung
#2. My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
Tommy Lee Jones
#4. 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
#6. You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart.
Daisaku Ikeda
#7. The call to the creative life is a call to dignity, to a life of vulnerability and adventure and the call to a life that exquisite excitement and indeed ecstasy will often visit.
John O'Donohue
#8. There are so many good reasons to stop complaining if you want to live a more creative life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#9. To live a creative life we must loose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Pearce
#10. 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
#11. I started producing out of necessity. It's not that I want to become a full time producer, but it gives me control over my creative life.
Michelle Glick
#12. The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#13. Medicines have limitations; the divine creative life force has none. - Swami Sri Yukteswar
Kimberly Snyder
#14. I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.
Brandon Boyd
#16. 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
#18. When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.
Will Self
#19. Fame is part of me and my life as an actor. I enjoy the creative aspects of my life as an actor. I enjoy directing and acting as well. But the bottom line for me is not prestige and power. It's about having an exciting, creative life.
Matt Dillon
#21. All forms of birth
physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional
bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life spirit birthing all, the seen and the unseen.
Amy Wright
#22. My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.
Don Henley
#23. I love that I live a creative life. It is in the work that I do - acting, writing, and directing. It's also in the mindfulness of every part of my life, from a meal that I prepare for family and friends to putting my imagination to work in a garden.
Regina Taylor
#24. A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.
Tom Wujec
#25. I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
Twyla Tharp
#26. Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.
Aldous Huxley
#27. 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
#28. People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.
Julia Cameron
#29. Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.
Twyla Tharp
#30. 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
#31. If you want to live a creative life, get efficient at failing.
Matthew Donnelly
#32. Adidas is a very personal inspiration to me. It has enriched my creative life. It's an exchange between different cultures, different ideas, and most of all, it is teamwork.
Yohji Yamamoto
#33. The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.
Ann Lewin-Benham
#34. Spiritual destiny is manifested in the lives of those who stand out from the masses and actually do something, who live a creative life for the benefit of others.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#35. 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
#36. Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
William Goldman
#37. When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.
Twyla Tharp
#38. All of which is to say: You do not need a permission slip from the principal's office to live a creative life. Or if you do worry that you need a permission slip - THERE, I just gave it to you. I
Elizabeth Gilbert
#39. A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
Will Self
#40. Artfulness is not simple entertainment,
especially during upheaval,
unleashing creative life is sacred duty.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#41. I work either way, you see - assisted or unassisted - because that is what you must do in order to live a fully creative life. I work steadily, and I always thank the process. Whether I am touched by grace or not, I thank creativity for allowing me to engage with it at all.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#42. Originals by Adam Grant is one of the best books I've read on how to be more creative at work and how to think outside the box, sell your ideas, and make a difference. 10.YOUR CREATIVE LIFE. The War of Art by Steven
Vishen Lakhiani
#43. If you want to do something creative, life won't wait.
Hilary Reyl
#44. To truly live a creative life means that you will need to experiment in as many different fields as possible.
Moby
#45. A creative life has nothing to do with where you're from or how much money you earn. It's merely a reflection of the creative intellect.
Anthony Marais
#46. I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
Laura Wade
#47. As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I can say that screenwriting is a vastly rewarding creative life - if you fight hard enough to do it on your own terms. Whether I write books or not, my screenwriting life has been creatively rewarding and remains so.
John Fusco
#48. The creative life [is] the only one for a serious man.
G.H. Hardy
#49. Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.
Jan Brett
#50. It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitant and afraid to pursue a creative life.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#51. I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.
Frank Auerbach
#52. In order to live a creative life, we must give up the fear of being
wrong.
Satyen Raja
#53. Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.
Sara Zarr
#54. I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.
Ruth St. Denis
#55. Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life.
Patti Digh
#56. All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.
Tommy Lee Jones
#57. You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.
Sylvia Plath
#58. Nothing needs to happen to a writer's life after they are 20. By then they've experienced more than enough to last their creative life.
Flannery O'Connor
#59. 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
#60. Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did!
Ai Qing
#61. The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
Carlos Fuentes
#63. The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police force to control the creative life of man.
Leonard Read
#64. Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#65. My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.
James Mercer
#66. Make a commitment to do something, anything, every day to make your creative life a real part of your daily routine.
Barbara Delaney
#67. I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the summer, I'm outside. It is a time for family. And in the winter, I am underground. Home. This is when I do my work as a writer - in hibernation. I write with the bears.
Terry Tempest Williams
#68. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 ... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
Anne Lamott
#69. "A creative life is not just for those fictional few who are "touched by the hand of God." We are all touched by the hand of God."
Joseph Curiale
#70. The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#72. The secret of the creative life is to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.
Paul Schrader
#73. I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.
George Saunders
#74. Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much - in her own writing, the place where her creative life transpires in absolute fullness.
Elena Ferrante
#75. In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.
Scott Weiland
#76. I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.
Alicia Witt
#77. The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry business and we're being paid to take risks and look silly. Race car drivers get paid to risk their lives in a more concrete way; we get paid to risk our lives in an emotional way.
Paul Schrader
#78. 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
#79. The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others.
Walter Russell
#80. Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
Ted Allen
#81. Raise your standards for the one thing over which you have complete control
yourse lf. It means you're committed to being intelligent, flexible, and creative enough to consistently find a way to look at your life in a fashion that makes any experience enriching.
Tony Robbins
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design.
Bela H. Banathy
#85. The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human soul can long ignore "the giant agony of the world" and live, except indeed the mollusc life, a barnacle upon eternity.
Helen Waddell
#86. Open your creative heart like an unfurling flower and petal and share your exquisiteness.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#87. You are God's highest form of creation. You are a living breathing creative magnet. You have the ability to control what you attract into your life.
Bob Proctor
#88. The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action.
Harold Bridgwood Walker
#89. Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.
Karen Armstrong
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. Tapping into the essence of originating Spirit, emulating the attributes of the creative force of intention, and manifesting into your life anything that you desire that's consistent with the universal mind ...
Wayne Dyer
#93. You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life.
Bebe
#94. I've never been one to go to church, but I've al was ways believed in a creative intelligence behind the ongoing riddle of the world.
Bill Clegg
#95. All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
Rollo May
#96. Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.
Carla H. Krueger
#97. My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.
Assata Shakur
#99. The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.
Julia Cameron
#100. When we C things correctly, life becomes Creative instead of reaCtive.
Donald Walsch
