Creative Quotes

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.

For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

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

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.

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.

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

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

I'm my most creative between 3 and 5 a.m. That's the way I've always been.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

As society changes, laws have to change to protect citizens along the way. Sometimes you have to try new and different and creative ways to solve problems. You have to take some risks.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

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.

I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.