Creative Quotes

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

Important, Seeker

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.
David Cronenberg

Technology, Human, Else

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.
Dave Brubeck

Time, Happen, Play

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
Orson Scott Card

Money, Writing, Career

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud

Bad, Training, Minds

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.
Carlos Fuentes

Life, Free, Camera

I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was in third or fourth grade that I really settled down at school and I was much happier at home with my mum and she was very creative and sort of fostered all my interests.
Geraldine Brooks

Home, School, Down

Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.
Jon Landau

Music, Work, Enjoy

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
Eric Ries

Work, Successful, Reality

I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.
Garrett Hedlund

Travel, Teacher, Someone

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.
Steve Wozniak

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
Hans Hofmann

Life, Nature, Mind

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.
Bill Toomey

Pretty, Same, Once

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.
Scott Caan

Writing, Acting

I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.
Anna Paquin

Alone, Amazing, Career

Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.
Joshua Foer

We reserve the term 'genius' for people who are creative, who are innovators, who think in ways that are entirely new. In the Middle Ages, the term 'genius' was reserved for people with the best memories. That is telling.
Joshua Foer

Best, Genius, Memories

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.
John Frusciante

Friendship, Hard, Person

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

Control, Enjoy, Whatever

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.
Mira Nair

Freedom, Game, Hollywood

It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.
Georgina Chapman

Funny, Sometimes, Pregnant

What an amazing opportunity to do something like direct a movie and step out of your creative comfort zone and yet do something that is also so familiar at the same time. I was also just excited to have the chance to direct, which I may never get to do again.
Georgina Chapman

Time, Amazing, May

I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
Taraji P. Henson

Busy, Person, Stay

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.
Frederick Henry Hedge

Men, Power, Act

Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I am a creative mind, because I still aspire to be one.
Giorgio Armani

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
Rowan D. Williams

Beauty, Act, Order

More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.
John Hodgman

Money, History, Writing

I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.
Kristin Davis

Crazy, Loved, Theatre

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

Keep, Road, Eventually

I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.
Scott Weiland

Emotional, Artist, Style

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