Creative Quotes

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.

Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

I enjoy the creative side of the business side of being a restaurateur. That's my thing. The thing I'm constantly thinking about is, how do you create new, interesting situations that keep people coming back?

Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.

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.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.

Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.

I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea.

Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

People say 'Hogan, you have this creative control clause?' and I say 'yeah, but the only time I've ever exercised it in 30 years is when Vince Russo screwed me'. And it didn't even help then! I got screwed and couldn't do anything about it!

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over.

This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.