Creative Quotes

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

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.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.

We need more extreme movies in Sweden.Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

I'm my most creative between 3 and 5 a.m. That's the way I've always been.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

As society changes, laws have to change to protect citizens along the way. Sometimes you have to try new and different and creative ways to solve problems. You have to take some risks.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me.

We invite American companies looking to raise capital to list on the Bahrain Stock Exchange. The region has a liquidity oversupply approximating $1 trillion and this pool of capital can be tapped into by creative American companies. The next Facebook may very well get funded on the BSE.

I like to be creative and I'm lucky that I have a couple of different outlets, and I'm lucky that I get to use them.

So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.

When I'm not working, I would kill to have some sort of creative outlet other than, say, a coloring book. And when I'm working, I want to do all those things I was griping about - you know, make a turkey-and-cheese sandwich, put it in a zip-top bag, and stick it in a lunch box right now!