Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative.
Lawrence Halprin

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

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Norman Mailer

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.
Wanda Sykes

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

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

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
Bell Hooks

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
David Foster Wallace

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
Alvin Ailey

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

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
John Updike

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

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
Charles Eames

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

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

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.
Bill Hicks

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
Bill Hicks

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
Russell Simmons

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
Mikhail Baryshnikov