Creative Quotes

Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it.

~ Christie Hefner

From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.

~ Kaja Foglio

I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

~ Malcolm Mclaren

Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.'

~ David Blunkett

Traveling around the country, meeting fans and hearing their stories in person and on my radio show has reenergized my commitment to creating honest and inspirational content that not only serves my own creative purposes but can help and touch others as well.

~ Nikki Sixx

I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.

~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

~ Bill Cosby

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

~ Van Wyck Brooks

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

~ Montgomery Clift

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

~ Arsene Wenger

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

~ Robin S. Sharma

Nothing that Robert Plant does will ever equal Led Zeppelin, but that doesn't mean he's going to stop being creative. Jimmy Page has so many incredibly cool projects, but it's not Led Zeppelin; there will only ever be one Led Zeppelin.

~ Nikki Sixx

I don't know anybody as creative and unique and off the wall as Dia Frampton. She's always asking me, 'Am I too weird?' I just tell her, 'People don't think you're weird, they think you're cool.'

~ Blake Shelton

You can't plan success with a creative field. So I enjoy it while it's here, and I know it won't be forever. Maybe one day I'll have to go back to flipping burgers, but for now I'm going to enjoy the cool things.

~ George Ezra

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

~ Ansel Adams

Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.

~ Bootsy Collins

Then finally I said, 'Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to be consulted. I want to know what they're doing and who's involved. And I want to see the space.' So they took me to see it, and then I realized it was major! All these red flags on the Rue de Rivoli with my name on them right by the Louvre!

~ Kate Moss

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

~ Randy Quaid

Your billion-dollar ideas don't show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish.

~ Robin S. Sharma

I pray, read the word, and then creative stuff happens here. Problem-solving and all of that comes into that space. So 'Da Box' actually represents my sanctuary and that time. I might look trapped in a box, but I'm actually more free in that box than anyone on the outside looking in or in any other space in my life.

~ Andra Day

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

~ Bill Gates

In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.

~ Tyler Cowen

When you see a fashion show, you see those seven minutes of what was six months of tedious work of, you know, going up an inch and down an inch, changing it from one shade of red to another shade of red. So it's the same as any creative process. The result is what we see, but the process is really labor intensive and work.

~ Marc Jacobs

Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.

~ Laurie Helgoe

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

~ Jodie Foster

It doesn't matter if they're famous or not - I just want to meet other creative people who can maybe bring something different to the studio than what I have. I think that's the most important thing for me.

~ Tiesto

Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.

~ Debbie Ford

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.

~ Alexander Pope

Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.

~ Marianne Williamson

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

~ Albert Einstein

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

~ Queen Elizabeth Ii

To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.

~ Sebastian Thrun

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

~ Bruno Bettelheim

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

~ Arthur Koestler

I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.

~ Garrett Hedlund

I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my mom was a piano teacher and a painter, so it was kind of a creative environment, and it was kind of in my DNA.

~ Trevor Rabin

I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.

~ Dominic Cooper

In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.

~ Isabel Allende

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

~ Barry Goldwater

DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive people in all the music charts. I am amazed how they are.

~ Yoko Ono