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

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl A. Menninger

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

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

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.
Ben Stiller

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

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
Agnes de Mille

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
Alfred Eisenstaedt

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.
Sidney Sheldon

I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.
Brad Paisley

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.
Marilyn Hacker

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.
Marilyn Hacker

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
Marilyn Hacker

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
Mikhail Bakunin

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.
Sting

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.
Katherine Dunham

So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.
Katherine Dunham

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

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
Paul Newman

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