Creative Quotes

Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.

So I think it was to Bryan's credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it.

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down some pathway while you're recording that you might not like later. And there's a lot of time to get in your own head and stay there.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.

I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.

I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

I take conscious breaks for myself 'cause I like to rejuvenate and get my creative juices flowing. I also like to take my time with my creativity; I think it's important.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found.