Creative Quotes

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.

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.

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making "Star Trek." But most of the time, I don't think about it.

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.

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.

But life is tough and if you're creative, it's tougher.

And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.