Creative Quotes

I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.
Carrie Underwood

Life, Husband, Friends

My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.
Robert Mapplethorpe

Money, Creativity, Theory

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
Jeanette Winterson

Work, Lie, Difficult

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
Robert Collier

Power, Making, Source

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.
Bruno Bettelheim

Art, Science, Children

My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can write about things that interest me. It's a platform where I can present ideas or new ventures and get feedback straight from the people who mean the most to me.
Lauren Conrad

Book, Mean, Write

We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.
will.i.am

Smart, Working, Making

Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.
Harvey Weinstein

Love, Humor, Time

I always loved the creative process, from 'Shakespeare in Love' to 'Finding Neverland' to 'Basquiat'; whether it's serious, or it's comedic, whether it's the 'inside look' at that, it seems to be a theme of what I do.
Harvey Weinstein

Love, Serious, Loved

As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world.
Rupert Murdoch

Live, America, Keep

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
Nate Silver

Baseball, Data, Terrific

There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
Eddie Van Halen

Three, Process, Finally

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.
Lewis Thomas

Music, Human, Cannot

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

Good, Yourself, Words

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
Maya Lin

True, Thinking, Down

Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.
Marc Jacobs

Work, Great, Design

Vision is the true creative rhythm.
Robert Delaunay

True, Vision, Rhythm

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.
Edward Norton

Work, Time, Hard

That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.
Richard Roeper

Why, Truly, Radio

I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.
George Saunders

Life, Person, Thought

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

Time, Off, Process

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
Henry Moore

Excitement, Obsession, Changes

I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant.
Gwen Stefani

Job, Real, Able

My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.
Gwen Stefani

Family, Mom, Leader

I have to be creative to be happy.
Gwen Stefani

When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.
Jeffrey Kluger

Night, Reason, Memories

It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.
Sloane Crosley

Fun, Depression, Takes

Everyone has been in a social situation where you say something and it goes unnoticed, then someone else says the same thing and everyone laughs a lot. You learn how to be more creative and whacky and amusing.
Sloane Crosley

Someone, Same, Else

I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.
Michael Sheen

Thinking, Away, Projects

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
John le Carre

Working, Energy, Opinion

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