Something Creative Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. There is always something to do. You just need to look harder, be creative and a little flexible.

Peter Cundill

#7. Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.

Abigail Washburn

#8. When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

Rollo May

#9. To see something as either black or white is easy. To see the entirety in something that has blending colors takes time. To see something that's not there, takes one who is a visionary.

Wes Adamson

#10. I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me.

Clint Eastwood

#11. Frank Sobotka in 'The Wire' on HBO was one of the greatest characters I've ever played. They cut his throat at the end of that season. There's something about creative coupling that seems to go with great characters, and the fact that you can never play them again once you're done.

Chris Bauer

#12. We really need to get it together here. I think we humans are so brilliant and creative, can't we try something else?

Frazey Ford

#13. 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

#14. Writing music is really personal, and it's a really exciting thing to participate in because represents the full creative process: It feels like something is coming from nothing.

Zooey Deschanel

#15. Common sense says that if something possessed the ability to create itself from nothing, then that something wasn't nothing, it was something - a very intelligent creative power of some sort.

Ray Comfort

#16. I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with 'House of Cards' and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn't happened there yet.

Henry Selick

#17. I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

Ken Wilber

#18. As a director, you want to be really connected to every part of your set, from your actors all the way to your camera operators. Everybody is a part of the creative process, and if they feel like they're part of a team versus just being a tool, they're going to give you something special.

Eric Balfour

#19. Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff.

Mel Gibson

#20. If you want to be creative, don't try to do something new. Doing something new means NOT doing what's been done before, and that's a negative impulse. Negative impulses are frustrating. They're the opposite of creativity, and they never yield good ideas ...

Eva Zeisel

#21. Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.

Jeffrey Deitch

#22. I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#23. The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Carl Jung

#24. It doesn't matter if they're famous or not - I just want to meet other creative people who can maybe bring something different to the studio than what I have. I think that's the most important thing for me.

Tiesto

#25. Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.

Steven Soderbergh

#26. I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!

Tom Hodgkinson

#27. All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

Charles James

#28. It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

Pankaj Patel

#29. We are all thinking, willing, knowing,conscious centers of Life. We are surroundedby, immersed in, and there is flowing through us a creative something ... call it what you will.

Ernest Holmes

#30. I think that there's no doubt that to work in film is a bit more of a creative journey. It's not that I don't put the same time or heart into something that's on television.

William Fichtner

#31. Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.

Katy Perry

#32. People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.

Ethan Zuckerman

#33. Screenwriting is still a challenge for me. It's more technical than creative. You have to be a very good journeyman plumber and put the proper parts together. Then, if you can still inject a little bit of something worthwhile, you have done as much as can be expected.

Leigh Brackett

#34. Composing is a natural fit. As far as the creative process goes, I'd rather do this than anything else, by far. Something different happened to me when I started to write music to images. It was a feeling of excitement and connection and a sense of being in the right place that I never had before.

James Newton Howard

#35. Ultimately I'll probably end up going out with an actress again. But an architect would be cool. They need to do something creative. I'm attracted to talent. But it would maybe be healthier if it wasn't in the industry.

Douglas Booth

#36. I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.

Gene Luen Yang

#37. 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
Write even more than that.
Write when you don't want to.
Write when you do.
Write when you have something to say.
Write when you don't.
Write every day.
Keep writing.

Brian Clark

#38. If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original - to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#39. Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.

Pope John Paul II

#40. Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian's Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.

Sara Sheridan

#41. I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.

Zooey Deschanel

#42. I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun.

Brendon Urie

#43. Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

Anni Albers

#44. June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible. Well o.k. that is the function of us all, as creative artists, to make the truth, as we see it irresistible.

Audre Lorde

#45. On lower budget things you're still working collaboratively, but the investment and your level of creative importance is higher on something like this.

Andy Serkis

#46. Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.

Genie Francis

#47. For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?

Elle Macpherson

#48. I think my role as a musician is much more reactionary than that of the creative personality type who locks himself in a tower and then comes out with Pet Sounds or something. I just respond to stimuli more than anything.

Blake Mills

#49. Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool.

Nita Leland

#50. I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

Lana Del Rey

#51. I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.

Assata Shakur

#52. 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

#53. Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.

Patricia Richardson

#54. We'd love it if everybody had a Kickstarter project. I believe that everyone has some kind of creative project that they think about - whether it's something small they'd like to do over a weekend with friends, or it's the film they've always wanted to make, whatever.

Perry Chen

#55. I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Norman Mailer

#56. 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

#57. Being behind the camera is where I feel comfortable. I've found something that I feel I, as 'Michael,' can be as confident in as 'Johnny' was on the stage. It's great being part of the creative process. You're right at the start of an idea, and you get to see it all the way through till the end.

Johnny Vegas

#58. You are relying on a waiting on other people in acting and films, so to be able to have something that I have full creative control over is really very therapeutic.

Mia Wasikowska

#59. From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

Grimes

#60. Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.

Ryan Kavanaugh

#61. 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

#62. If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.

Jimmy Page

#63. 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

#64. Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult or creative.

Scott Berkun

#65. And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.

Rowan Atkinson

#66. I guess I learned a couple of good lessons from my dad. One was when you're creating something, what you want when you're working with a team of other artists, is everybody to work with some creative freedom, so that you really get the best out of everybody.

Brian Henson

#67. I love writing. I love getting lost in creative projects when I'm going through a tough transition in life. I always keep in mind that it's not the first time something painful has happened, and just like I got through other troubles, the one at hand will pass as well.

Melanie Iglesias

#68. When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.

Matthew Williamson

#69. I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

Kris Jenner

#70. When I started writing, I just wanted to do something different and creative. I first thought neo-soul was a good pathway for me, so I tried that out but realized I didn't want to be placed in that box.

Leon Bridges

#71. I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it.

Oliver Sacks

#72. Worry never helped anything, so why turn to it during times of need? It won't nurture or heal you - quite the opposite, actually. It's so much better to put the effort into something creative as a way to quietly meditate through positive action. Create, create, create!

Doreen Virtue

#73. It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.

Alexandre Aja

#74. Pay attention to the inner voice that tells you when something feels right. Much of your creative problem-solving occurs at an unconscious level.

Nita Leland

#75. It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

Michael Foley

#76. I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

Jonathan Brandis

#77. It's great, it's a creative process! It's something that I've been hungry for and I feel like I'm getting fed every day! We've got Adam and Joe in the room, and it's intense but it's a good intensity, you know? It's kind of like an actor's dream.

Kendra Kassebaum

#78. I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

Stewart Butterfield

#79. There's something fun about the road because there's no 9 to 5. But I do find myself making the effort to take some time off. As much as I don't want to, I have to. I need to reset. I love weeks off, because I can go in the studio and just be creative again.

Hunter Hayes

#80. 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

#81. Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it. So it's just something creative people need to get familiar with ... not really so scary.

Adam Leipzig

#82. This might be the most important question for every creator and maker in the world: how do you make something new if most people just like what they know? Is it possible to surprise with familiarity?

Derek Thompson

#83. My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.

Kris Jenner

#84. It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.

Charlie Kaufman

#85. The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.

Milan Kundera

#86. A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.

William Morris

#87. Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

Ava DuVernay

#88. If you want something bad enough, and you're having enough fun doing it, you can accomplish it. You just got to get creative and find a way.

Nick Goepper

#89. It's cool that you hear something, but what did you feel and what was your tactile and kinesthetic response to it? Those songs and creative sessions mean the most.

Pharrell Williams

#90. I'm born into the cycle of giving that we're all born into, and I recognize it. So just because something is a good business, I'm not a business guy. I'm a creative guy.

Russell Simmons

#91. Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely.

Jaime Reed

#92. The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.

Steve Jobs

#93. My creative is curiosity conversations ... All conversations reveal some inner truth, and the information we get from a computer is different than something that becomes a biochemical event, like a real conversation.

Brian Grazer

#94. I love to be creative and to put flesh onto the ideas that are inside of me. And there are not that many great programs that are coming out through Hollywood, and I'm tired of waiting around for someone to hand me a good script, so I'm going to go and produce something.

Kirk Cameron

#95. I guess my view of life is that you live your life and it's short. The thing is to have as rich an experience as you possibly can.
That's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to do something creative. I try to educate people.

Michio Kaku

#96. In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

E. M. Forster

#97. There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.

Beth Ditto

#98. But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

Andy Hertzfeld

#99. 148She once said, "Just because you have talent doesn't mean you have to you have to do something with it.

Nanette Vonnegut

#100. To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.

David Bowie