Creative famous quotes
05-20-2025
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Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
-- A. C. Cuza -
Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is
-- A. R. Rahman -
Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.
-- Aaron Copland -
My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
-- Abbie Cornish -
I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
-- Abel Ferrara -
Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
-- Aberjhani -
Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.
-- Abigail Washburn -
The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.
-- Abiola Abrams -
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.
-- Adam Baldwin -
Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?
-- Adam Carolla -
There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
-- Adam Duritz -
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 -
Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge...
-- Adolf Hitler -
On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.
-- Adrian Bejan -
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
-- Agnes de Mille -
Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.
-- Agnes de Mille -
It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
-- Aimee Mullins -
It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.
-- Ajay Naidu -
From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
-- Akio Morita -
Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
-- Akio Morita -
In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.
-- Al Gore -
I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. I just don't think that everybody is disciplined. I think that's a rare commodity.
-- Al Hirschfeld -
I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein.
-- Al Seckel -
An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.
-- Alan Cohen -
It's hard to overemphasize how important Ford's deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s:...
-- Alan Greenspan -
The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
-- Alan Lightman -
I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
-- Alan Paton -
To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.
-- Alanis Morissette -
I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.
-- Albert Einstein -
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
-- Albert Einstein -
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
-- Albert Einstein -
In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
-- Albert Einstein -
Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.
-- Albert Einstein -
Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
-- Albert Einstein -
Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.
-- Aldous Huxley -
If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.
-- Alec Soth -
It's always dangerous when boring people think they're creative.
-- Alec Sulkin -
As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.
-- Alex Grey -
Do solemnly swear to love, honor and obey my soul, my path to realization and relationship with a higher, deeper creative power, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, from now and forever more.
-- Alex Grey -
The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
-- Alex Grey -
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
-- Alex Kapranos -
I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.
-- Alexa Chung -
I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.
-- Alexander Wang -
What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?
-- Alexi Murdoch -
I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
-- Alfonso Ribeiro -
If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to denigrate expensive movies. I dont want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.
-- Alfred Molina -
The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs
-- Alfred P. Sloan -
It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients.
-- Alice Waters -
A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.
-- Alice Weaver Flaherty -
I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.
-- Alicia Witt -
When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.
-- Alison Moyet -
We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find the scientific method never discovers anything. Observant, creative people make discoveries. But the scientific method protects us from cranks like me.
-- Allan Savory -
I've spent some time working with a non-Italian designer; I've been helping him organize fashion shows, the advertising, also helping with the creative part. But the great part about this work is that I am no one!
-- Allegra Versace -
When you only have a million dollar annual budget and a Super Bowl ad costs $4 million, you have to do something very creative to get onto the Super Bowl.
-- Allen St. Pierre -
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.
-- Alvar Aalto -
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 -
We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.
-- Alvin Ailey -
Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.
-- Amanda Palmer -
I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.
-- Amanda Palmer -
Quantum physics presents a new and exciting worldview that challenges old concepts, such as deterministic trajectories of motion and causal continuity. If initial conditions do not forever determine an object's motion, if instead, every time we observe, there is a new beginning, then the world is creative at the base level.
-- Amit Goswami -
Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.
-- Amit Ray -
I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff.
-- Amy Lee -
I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.
-- Amy Lee -
Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: (1) stop us in our tracks, or (2) force us to get creative.
-- Amy Purdy -
To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino -
The cloud represents the creative power of the mind, which can assume any imaginable form. It is the ideal medium of creation for the enlightened mind, which manifests itself on the plane of timeless meditative vision.
-- Anagarika Govinda -
Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.
-- Anais Nin -
In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
-- Andre Malraux -
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
-- Andre Norton -
The creation of rule is more creative than the destruction of them. Creation demands a higher level of reasoning and draws connections between cause and effect. The best rules are never stable or permanent, but evolve naturally according to context or need.
-- Andrea Zittel -
You can only feel creative when there is joy. When there is a sense of passion.
-- Andreas Moritz -
Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act.
-- Andrei Tarkovsky -
A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.
-- Andrew Bird -
It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down some pathway while you're recording that you might not like later. And there's a lot of time to get in your own head and stay there.
-- Andrew Dost -
The seminaries must face the fact that they are not turning out well-trained professional clergy. They must realize that preaching is creative work and that some element of creativity should be required as a condition for ordination.
-- Andrew Greeley -
There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.
-- Andrew Greeley -
It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.
-- Andrew Schneider -
It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.
-- Andy Hertzfeld -
You don't get creative by staying in the same place.
-- Andy Law -
I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.
-- Andy Milonakis -
Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.
-- Angus MacLean -
We were most creative when our back was against the wall.
-- Anita Roddick -
I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.
-- Ann Wilson -
Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
Like the pioneers of old, a creative person breaks new ground daily.
-- Anna Olson -
The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.
-- Anne Lamott -
What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?
-- Anne Lamott
