Creative Quotes

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down some pathway while you're recording that you might not like later. And there's a lot of time to get in your own head and stay there.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.

I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

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.

And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

I take conscious breaks for myself 'cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it's important.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.