Top 100 Quotes About Creative
#1. The belief of an infinity of creative and created Gods, each more eminently requiring an intelligent author of his being than the foregoing, is a direct consequence of the premises, which you have stated.
Christopher Hitchens
#2. Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that could get in the way. But success is the best revenge, so build yourself up rather than knock others down.
Tavi Gevinson
#3. PUBLISHER'S NOTE To seize the knowledge of the UNKNOWABLE needs a language, which is at once symbolically creative, revealingly poetic, infinitely plastic, luminously rhythmic, automatic perception of right relations and their inevitable descent of truth of idea, word and action.
Maa Krishna Sri Aurobindo
#4. I'm not extravagant, so I won't need to rein it in too much. Me and my friend make each other cards. I love being creative and making things. But a better credit crunch idea is to not even bother sending cards.
Konnie Huq
#5. Philosopher and author Dr. Wayne Dyer calls the ego "edge god out." It is the process of disconnecting with the creative, true force of the universe. It is the process of making you separate from it, others, nature, and the universe.
Emily Maroutian
#6. The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora's box, and you can't close it again.
Michael Redhill
#7. You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.
Ivar Giaever
#9. Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.
Anne Rice
#10. Only a man of inner silences becomes a creator. And we need more and more creative people in the world. Their very creativity, their very silence, their very love, their very peace will be the only way to protect this beautiful planet.
Rajneesh
#11. I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
Barbra Streisand
#12. I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#13. The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. We can choose to be truthful even when the choice means personal loss. We can choose to undertake a great action - unselfish, courageous, daringly creative - that looks unreasonable and irrational to the eye of the Ego.
Ilchi Lee
#19. Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.
Bill Toomey
#20. New research suggests that we may hold an unconscious bias against creative ideas much like we do in cases of racism or phobias.
Anonymous
#21. I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!
Michelle Rodriguez
#22. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.
Dieter Rams
#23. What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore
#24. Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development.
Russell L. Ackoff
#25. This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global transitions based on the realization that the Earth cannot support nonsustainable practices anymore.
Terry Tempest Williams
#26. Forget ideas, Mr. Author.
What kind of pen do you use?
Stephen Fry
#27. 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
#28. Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.
Hans Selye
#29. Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.
Virginia Woolf
#30. The idea was always going to be that each year is a stand-alone story, which did make it easier on some level. It also requires the network to have the creative imagination to say, 'This is also 'Fargo,' you know what I mean?
Noah Hawley
#31. It always seemed to me," she said at last, "that it must require a great deal of courage to be an artist, if only because the creative process is such a lonely one. I should imagine it must be all the more difficult for a woman.
Richard Yates
#32. Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.
Umberto Eco
#33. Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.
Maurice Sendak
#34. I liked being active. I liked being creative.
Sarah Hughes
#35. Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its re-creation in a photograph must be based upon technical knowledge, guided and supported by artsitic inspiration.
Andreas Feininger
#36. Boredom can be a very good thing for someone in a creative jam.
Stephen King
#37. Building a world where we meet our own needs without denying future generations a healthy society is not impossible, as some would assert. The question is where societies choose to put their creative efforts
Christopher Flavin
#38. Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.
Stephen L. Carter
#39. It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Friedrich Schiller
#40. 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
#41. It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business
David Ogilvy
#42. I actually think the creative process is finite, and I'm wondering whether I've retched everything up. Because it's like vomiting or shitting.
Andy Partridge
#43. A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.
Jacob Bronowski
#44. 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
#45. The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.
Frank X. Barron
#46. I love creating new things. It's difficult to be creative once a restaurant's open. People want the same dishes. For me, the creativity is in opening a new place and starting a new menu.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#47. We're all creative, it's just some of us earn our living by being so.
John Hegarty
#48. From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.
Melissa George
#49. Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.
Annie Besant
#50. This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'
Jack White
#51. Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
Kanye West
#52. 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
#53. Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
Harriet Martineau
#54. The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.
George Gilder
#55. True creativity comes from enjoying ?the? moments, which then fulfill themselves, and a part of the creative process is indeed the art of relaxation, the letting go, for that triggers magical activity ...
Seth
#56. You owe it to yourself to make your creative development a top priority.
Nita Leland
#57. I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.
Jeff Garlin
#58. When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work ... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.
Eric Maisel
#59. The consequences of love affairs would stop me from my independent freedom of creative activity, and I don't intend to be stopped.
Sylvia Plath
#60. I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.
Francois Mauriac
#61. Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.
Brad Meltzer
#62. The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.
John Cleese
#63. Sexual role play provides a creative platform for us to safely express certain aspects of our shadow self.
Miya Yamanouchi
#64. As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.
Charlton Heston
#65. You don't get creative by staying in the same place.
Andy Law
#66. The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
Madeleine L'Engle
#67. The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.
Anthony Storr
#68. The creative folks intuitively design what's best for the user, while data folks provide great insights. The true unicorns are those who can go end-to-end designing, building, measuring, analyzing, and iterating with a combination of user intuition and deep analytics.
Matthew Humphreys
#69. To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.
Steven Pressfield
#70. Art is the overflow of emotion into action.
Brian Raif
#71. I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.
Simon McBurney
#72. In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?
Adolf Hitler
#73. Enlightenment is when there is no personal self, only the Creative Self, which is universal and impersonal in nature. It is when the personal self or personality is no longer the point of reference, but rather it becomes a tool to realize the True Self and to do its Creative Will.
David Cherubim
#74. Encourage kids to be creative without worrying about being perfect.
Dav Pilkey
#75. I feel like that's what being creative is: It's you bouncing with emotion and what you capture in those bounces. Accept where you are and use it.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#76. The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.
Carl Jung
#77. I like to deal with my dark side in a creative way, and just sing about killing people instead of actually doing it.
Annie E. Clark
#78. Look for patterns, and then ask why those patterns exist.
Debra Kaye
#79. Working harder is not a sustainable solution and it's not how people meet their destiny. It's time to get more creative. Instead of choosing one thing we love over something else we love, we must ask, 'how can I do both?' And, then, we can find solutions.
Maynard Webb
#80. I think we're heading into the Creative Age. We've passed through the Agricultural and then the Industrial and then the Information Age.
Meredith Brooks
#81. I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman ... is a despot; the average man is a serf.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#82. There is always something to do. You just need to look harder, be creative and a little flexible.
Peter Cundill
#83. Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. Have I not told you all thought is creative?
Neale Donald Walsch
#84. The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.
Bryant McGill
#85. The creative process for me doesn't work as well without an image of an audience in mind.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#86. Some Christians believe the harder that one thinks, the colder faith will grow. Augustine grew more brilliant as he grew more pious, more creative as he became more orthodox. His period of heresy was imitative, but his traditional Christianity took mental risks.
John Mark Reynolds
#87. What is amazing to me as an archaeologist is that the more and more I study, I realize we are resilient, we are creative, we are brilliant, and this is what makes us human, and that hasn't changed since we've been human.
Sarah Parcak
#88. Everything is possible until proven impossible, and then you just need to become more creative.
Scott Parazynski
#89. There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.
Pete McCarthy
#90. 'Creative Commons' is the self-congratulatory name of a self-congratulatory movement. Somewhat like kibbutz on the Internet, the idea is to write programs - 'free ware' - and distribute them without charge.
Mark Helprin
#91. The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
Anais Nin
#92. I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real.
Rick Moody
#93. We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
Shakti Gawain
#94. The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#95. 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
#96. The human eye is restricted to see the useen, because there's a price to be paid to the rulers of this image and if this image is seen by you, you'll dare not divulge it to others, for others must pay a price
Michael Bassey Johnson
#97. Just as in sports, becoming an elite performer in business requires struggle, sacrifice, and honest (often painful) self-assessment... Learning how to implement these approaches is often what separates a brilliant thinker from a creative want-to-be.
G. Michael Maddock
#98. 'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, and you were just kind of observing the creative process of choreography and in class.
Misty Copeland
#99. I finally understood that I didn't lack pen and paper but my own
memorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, called
rote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking,
a great human gift disowned.
Grace Paley
#100. The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our economic irresponsibility. We must live within our means and implement creative, free-market solutions to put Americans back in jobs and to create economic opportunities.
Pete Sessions