Creative Quotes

I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.

~ Chris Robinson

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

~ David Mccallum

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

~ John H. Johnson

There's such a thing, if you're a finance man, as hitting the figures you need to hit. But there's no equivalent in acting. It's a creative field. It's subjective. That's what I love about it.

~ Will Poulter

Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.

~ Steven Pressfield

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

~ Ken Wilber

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

~ George Orwell

Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

~ Martha Stewart

When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve... mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary.

~ Ben Bernanke

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

~ Leo Burnett

I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.

~ Robin S. Sharma

A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

~ Morris Raphael Cohen

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

~ Stephen Covey

I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.

~ Victoria Beckham

We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

~ Noomi Rapace

I've never been that much of a money guy. I'm more of a film guy, and most of the money I've made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

~ George Lucas

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

~ Henry Petroski

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

~ D. H. Lawrence

The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered the sort of radical, technology-driven transformation that other creative industries, including music, publishing, and movies, now face.

~ Virginia Postrel

We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of creative, sensitive people. We have our charmed little world where we get to make things. We're really lucky.

~ Marc Jacobs

A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

I love Janet Jackson and her creative set design.

~ Dylan Lauren

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

~ Issey Miyake

I find, in merchandising and design and creative, a business school degree isn't particularly helpful.

~ Mickey Drexler

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

~ Margaret Heffernan

I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff.

~ Amy Lee

Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.

~ Terrence Mcnally

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

~ Nawal El-Saadawi

I like Ben Stein. I think he's funny, creative, and an insightful commentator on a host of issues.

~ Chuck Norris

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

~ Wayne Dyer

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

~ Carl Jung

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

~ Tim Berners-Lee

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'

~ Tom Robbins

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

~ Robert Collier

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

~ Carl Jung

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

~ Zig Ziglar

I've proven I'm courageous. I'm gutsier than anybody; I've got a better imagination than anybody; I'm essentially more creative than any other actor I know, and I've proven I take risks. I don't think I need to prove anything to myself any more.

~ Michael Keaton

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

~ John Le Carré

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

~ John Le Carré

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

~ Tommy Lee Jones