Creative Quotes

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.
Maynard James Keenan

Wanted, Knew, Create

I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.
Kelly Clarkson

Life, Work, Real

Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant

Depression, Prone

The creative adult is the child who has survived.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Child, Adult, Survived

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

Love, Pleasure, Apart

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.
Brandon Boyd

Person, Trying, Understand

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.
Tony Blair

Politics, Time, Another

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

Art, Thinking, Small

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?
Kanye West

Good, Someone, Why

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
Berenice Abbott

Life, Positive, Death

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
Anne Sullivan Macy

Education, Knowledge, Light

Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.
Hugh Hopper

Rest, Maybe, Percent

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.
Haruki Murakami

Time, Bored, Write

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
Stephen Leacock

Work, Last, Call

I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'
Francis Ford Coppola

Through, Another, Film

The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.
David Bailey

Hate, Yourself, Integrity

I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
David Bailey

Movies, Focus, Mad

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.
Mike Shinoda

Person, Sometimes, Off

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. It's like running, it's exertion.
Kristen Stewart

Time, Yourself, Same

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.
Kristen Stewart

Time, Yourself, Same

You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.
Liz Phair

Why, Knew, Reaction

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
Willa Cather

Best, Character, Everything

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.
Gwen Stefani

Love, Power, Nothing

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.
Cher

Great, Art, Mother

Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one - no one can stop us.
Elizabeth Warren

Fight, Real, Tough

We've had to be creative to get on the ballot.
Kinky Friedman

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
Arthur Erickson

Self, Act, Takes

Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the advent of this nation, men were walking on the moon, and I want us to recognize this is the kind of people that we are. We're creative with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of energy.
Benjamin Carson

Men, Country, Before

Then finally I said, 'Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to be consulted. I want to know what they're doing and who's involved. And I want to see the space.' So they took me to see it, and then I realized it was major! All these red flags on the Rue de Rivoli with my name on them right by the Louvre!
Kate Moss

Said, Name, Space

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.
Channing Tatum

Thankful, Weird, Cause

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