Creative Quotes

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

I'm a creative guy, artistically with graphics.

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

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!

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process.

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.

I like to be creative.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

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.