Creative Quotes

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.

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

We've had to be creative to get on the ballot.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.

That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

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.