Creative Quotes

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process.

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

We've had to be creative to get on the ballot.

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

If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.

A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that's good for America. Nobody's rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don't go away, the creative people don't go away. They get employed more productively by others.

That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

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

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

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

I enjoy the creative side of the business side of being a restaurateur. That's my thing. The thing I'm constantly thinking about is, how do you create new, interesting situations that keep people coming back?

Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.