Creative Quotes

Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

~ Action Bronson

The idea was always going to be that each year is a stand-alone story, which did make it easier on some level. It also requires the network to have the creative imagination to say, 'This is also 'Fargo,' you know what I mean?

~ Noah Hawley

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

~ Robert Delaunay

It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

~ Albert Einstein

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

~ Rabindranath Tagore

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

~ Steven Wright

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

~ G. H. Hardy

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

~ Carl Rogers

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

~ Tadao Ando

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.

~ John Frusciante

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

~ Steve Ballmer

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

~ Marsha Blackburn

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

~ Robert Rodríguez

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

~ Ayn Rand

Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.

~ Travis Scott

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

~ Robert Rodríguez

A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.

~ Tom Paulin

The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.

~ Shaun Tan

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

~ Alejandro González Iñárritu

People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.

~ Daniel Radcliffe

Creative industries are more important than the car industry, luxury jewels, and fashion.

~ Jean-Michel Jarre

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

~ Dorothy Thompson

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

~ Albert Einstein

I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'

~ Orhan Pamuk

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

~ Richard Eyre

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.

~ Edward Hirsch

I loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercises to stimulate subject matter: Write a poem about an imaginary landscape with real people in it. Write about a place your parents lived in before you were born. We have enough terrible poetry around without encouraging more of it.

~ Donald Hall

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

~ Robert Morgan

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

~ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

~ John F. Kennedy

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

~ Barbara Januszkiewicz

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

~ Enya

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

~ Freda Adler

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

~ Amitabh Bachchan

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

~ Nawal El-Saadawi

'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.

~ Twyla Tharp

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

~ Albert Camus

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

~ Annie Lennox