Best 3399 quotes in «creative quotes» category

Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

Any education system that only memorizes things creates robots and will never produce Nobel laureates. Any education system that only emphasizes improvisation will get a bunch of people who may think they are creative, but they are functionally illiterate.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.

Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the person who created it and is known only to him.

Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.

Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process.

Anytime we think the problem is 'out there,' that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us. The change paradigm is 'outside-in' - what's out there has to change before we can change.  The proactive approach is to change from the 'inside-out': to be different, and by being different, to effect positive change in what's out there - I can be more resourceful, I can be more diligent, I can be more creative, I can be more cooperative.

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.

Any wrong decision you have ever made will become unimportant when your attention has shifted from it to a creative reason for living right here and now.

A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?

Are you willing to take the Big Leap to your ultimate level of success in love, money, and creative contribution?

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.

Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms... Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

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.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Art is in the process of redefining our relationships to each other ... The creative minds are bubbling, bubbling, and I know the soup that's coming up next time is going to feed a lot more of us.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator... Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks release, and for the creative it can take the form of art.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color

Art is the most valued thing in the world...it is the expression of the highest form of human energy,the creative power nearest to the divine.The power is within - the question is how to reach it.

Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

As a director, you want to be really connected to every part of your set, from your actors all the way to your camera operators. Everybody is a part of the creative process, and if they feel like they're part of a team versus just being a tool, they're going to give you something special.

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.