Quotes About Creatives

#1. Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative.

Ryan Lilly

#2. As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down.

Spike Jonze

#3. Like most other creatives, I struggle with self-sabotage, self-doubt, and feeling like an imposter more often than not. I struggle with expressing myself, because it does sometimes feel easier or safer not to.

Jeff Jarvis

#4. Creatives are feared and ridiculed ... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not.

Janice Tanton

#5. You came here because we do this better than you and part of that is letting our creatives be unproductive until they are.

Don Draper

#6. You're always looking for roles and other creatives who are going to be challenging to you, because you're always a better actor after the experience.

David Oyelowo

#7. The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.

Simon Sinek

#8. Artists, writers, creatives succumb either to vanity of disappointment.

Chloe Thurlow

#9. Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think it stifles the creativity.

Henry Selick

#10. We creatives are allowed to be slightly sinister

T.S. Easton

#11. Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not from a wealthy family, and when you come from those circumstances, doing art isn't really an option.

Kesh

#12. We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.

Kanye West

#13. A thing that most creatives don't do well is that you've gotta learn to listen.

Lee Clow

#14. Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

Steven Kotler

#15. Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

Sara Sheridan

#16. Companies consistently overvalue relevant experience when judging senior candidates. They should be more focused on what talented smart creatives have to offer.

Anonymous

#17. Cultural creatives take a stand for a more spiritualized, personalized, and integrated culture.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#18. You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

Ryan Lilly

#19. I want to give other creatives the opportunity to find the entrepreneur inside themselves and teach them how to build their own platform.

Sophia Amoruso

#20. Smart creatives thrive on interacting with each other. The mixture you get when you cram them together is combustible, so a top priority must be to keep them crowded.

Eric Schmidt

#21. You can attract the best smart creatives with factors beyond money: the great things they can do, the people they'll work with, the responsibility and opportunities they'll be given, the inspiring company culture and values, and yes, maybe even free food and happy dogs sitting desk-side.

Eric Schmidt

#22. Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction.

Richie Norton

#23. Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.

Shannon L. Alder

#24. In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#25. Harm is one of those things that I always mean to keep clear of, but somehow my intentions and me don't chime as they ought, and people will get hit with stones that I throw at my neighbor's dogs ...

Emily Dickinson

#26. The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

Ntozake Shange

#27. That's the value of the artist ... Even when they aren't aware, they're dreaming our dreams for us.

Tom Robbins

#28. This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.

Seth Godin

#29. If you judge your thoughts worth hearing, pronounce them proudly, push them to every corner of the chamber, fill the hall with your hopes and desires and make every listener share them! If you are ashamed of your thoughts, better to leave a silence.

Joe Abercrombie