Best 3399 quotes in «creative quotes» category

I'm not prescribing non-doing as a universal response to our problems. Sometimes, something obviously needs to be done. And we retreat into a spiritual or meditative state that we fancy up by calling it mindfulness, but really it's an unhealthy detachment and a shrinking back from life. But culturally, it's much more common to be trapped in habits of reaction, whether on a systemic level or on a personal level. That's where the non-doing comes in, which is something that we don't really have room for. I think that it's something we need to embrace as part of the creative process.

I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.

I'm one of those guys who will drink to, uh, kind of celebrate. I don't drink too much when I'm down or anything like that. But you've really got to be, I guess the word that came to mind is "creative," about the way you're celebrating. You want to keep the celebration going. I've learned that lesson over and over. Here on the road there's a lot of cause for celebration, but you just gotta get the damper out a little bit, and you want to keep that governor on. You want to keep your give-a-shitter in kick.

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint.

I'm proud by not being frustrated, jealous or too confused by remaining creative. It's very easy to give up, and to keep going and sticking to your own ethos is very difficult.

I'm really into football, gadgets, adventurous activities, and cooking new, creative recipes right now - but you'll never catch me being boring.

I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.

I'm really happy with everything that I've been fortunate enough to do and with the creative outlets I've been blessed to have.

I'm really thriving and enjoying being a part of a really vibrant creative team and doing creative work.

I'm super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.

I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.

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

I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.

I'm trying to conduct only five months a year, and the rest will be composing time. I'm trying to spend as much as I can out of those months here in L.A., because for creative work, this is a fantastic place.

I'm used to working with restrictions and that's when you come up with the more creative stuff.

I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.

In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.

In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.

In a period piece, particularly a fantasy, the lighting is your own choice, the lenses are your own choice. It's really a great thing for a cinematographer to do. Everything is open for you. You can even be more creative and you can use more shadows than usual.

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.

In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy.

In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

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

I need to find creative diversity because if I get stuck, I get unhappy.

I need to trust myself and go where my instincts tell me, and to be as wild and free as possible in my creative decisions.

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.

I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

I never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.

I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

I never remain passive in the process of reading: while I read I am engaged in a constant creative activity, which leads me to remember not so much the actual matter of the book as the thoughts evoked in my mind by it, directly or indirectly.

I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.

In fully accepting your creative power, you honor and respect your soul and remind others to do the same.

I never understood why people take drugs. They're habit forming and they can kill you. I didn't need anything to pep me up or make me feel more creative, and I didn't need them to help me with women.

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in the afternoons.

In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar. So no one ever told me I couldn't write both prose and poetry, and I started out writing all the things I still write: poetry, prose fiction - which took me longer to get published - and non-fiction prose.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

In my career, fun becomes a big factor. If something feels like it's going to be creative and be fun - follow your bliss. Is this where the juice is? Then I go there.

In my creative films, if there was something, some humorous moment that is lost to a non-Korean speaking audience, I'll be very sad.