Creative Quotes

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Gary Ryan Blair

Success, Failure, Goal

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Abraham Maslow

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Alexander Pope

Change, Nature, Great

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

Mankind, Seldom, Prolific

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia Woolf

Power, Whole, Universe

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Life, Death, Spiritual

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. Forster

Greater, Writers, Causes

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl Sandburg

Greatest, America, Solitude

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Julia Cameron

Control, Process, Surrender

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
John Cleese

Time, Give, Enough

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.
Henry Rollins

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
Ansel Adams

Life, Human, Universe

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
W. Somerset Maugham

Together, Cannot, Perfection

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce

Life, Fear, Live

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.
Lady Gaga

Mind, Date, Purse

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

Life, Important, Boredom

I'm my most creative between 3 and 5 a.m. That's the way I've always been.
Marilyn Manson

Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.
Ryan Reynolds

Time, Insecurity, Put

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
Virginia Woolf

Give, Another, Fact

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.
Tori Amos

Person, Trying, Else

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
Judy Collins

Love, Faith, Find

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.
Miles Davis

Life, Morning, Future

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
Alfred Adler

Great, Death, Real

All creative people want to do the unexpected.
Hedy Lamarr

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

Less, Mature, Workers

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
Gerald Jampolsky

Person, Him, Truly

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.
Ted Allen

Life, Nothing, Wrong

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
David Herbert Lawrence

Art, Design, Eyes

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

Life, Enough, Full

If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.
David Ogilvy

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