Creative Quotes

Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.
Katy Perry

Life, Good, Hard

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.
Danica McKellar

Love, True, Brain

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
Adam Savage

Attitude, Thinking, Looking

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Life, Work, Creativity

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Denis Diderot

Nature, Reason, Means

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

Long, Enough, Moment

You cannot be creative with people around you.
Karl Lagerfeld

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
Sri Aurobindo

Human, Her, Dead

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.
Sienna Miller

Parents, Person, Quite

The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.
Simon Mainwaring

Change, Nature, Technology

I like engineering, but I love the creative input.
John Dykstra

The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.
Saul Williams

Good, Art, Focus

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
Alan Alda

Place, Else, Intuition

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
Annie Lennox

Time, Person, Find

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.
Suzanne Somers

Knowledge, General

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
Freda Adler

Change, Heart, Order

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.
Emma Thompson

Writing, Control, Find

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

Great, Stupidity, Together

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
David Ogilvy

Business, Create, Unless

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.
Eric Cantona

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
Warren G. Bennis

Two, Dance, Create

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.
Ray Manzarek

History, Yourself, Through

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
Annie Lennox

Society, Live, Person

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
Barbara Januszkiewicz

Change, Thinking, Ideas

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.
Jeremy Renner

Busy, Dead, Stay

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Henri Matisse

Forget, Nothing, Before

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

Thinking, Process, Hand

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing

Life, Work, Great

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!
Michelle Rodriguez

Struggle, Someone, Working

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler

Teacher, Learning, Same

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