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

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

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

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

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
Arsene Wenger

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
Arsene Wenger

All creative people want to do the unexpected.
Hedy Lamarr

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.
Jennifer Lopez

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
Oscar de la Renta

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Alfred North Whitehead

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
R. D. Laing

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Friedrich Schiller

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Madame de Stael

For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?
Elle Macpherson

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
Missy Elliot

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.
Missy Elliot

As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.
Charlton Heston

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.
Lester Bangs

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.
Keenen Ivory Wayans

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.
Gwyneth Paltrow