Creative Quotes

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

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

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.

The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

At the end of the day, I want to create collections that, although I am inspired by very creative women, I want my customer to walk away with a silhouette that she doesn't even know what collection it comes from. That it just lasts in her wardrobe and makes her feel strong and confident and hopefully happy.

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

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.

I make about two movies a year outside the 'True Blood' schedule. I work on a great show six months a year, then outside that I get to satisfy whatever creative urges I have. It's a great position, especially for a single guy like me.

When you're young, you're fearless and more creative, more of an outsider.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

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.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.