Best 3399 quotes in «creative quotes» category

Consciousness is the creative element in the universe. Without it, nothing would appear.

Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.

Consumers know precisely what's wrong with advertising. Be it TV or print or whatever, they know that advertising is never creative enough ... never as witty, inspiring, sophisticated, entertaining and downright likeable as they would like it to be.

Contemporary research shows that happy people are more altruistic, more productive, more helpful, more likable, more creative, more resilient, more interested in others, friendlier, and healthier. Happy people make better friends, colleagues, and citizens.

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.

Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

Cooking may be a creative art, but it's also a wonderful full-time hobby.

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

Craft is part of the creative process.

Creation is the product of synchronizing our energy with the universe. Once we experience the whole and recognize it, we become aware that we are nothing but the Divine Creative Force.

Creative artists have great passion.

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

Creative differences are legendary in this movie business, so we're really not exploring the creative-difference aspect as opposed to the money aspect, or the fact that something can come up in a movie and literally put the whole movie on the line, and this is where producers have to earn their keep.

Creative energy is more critical than learning.

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

Creative leadership impact increases in your 50's. When I turn 50 I want to say, "Nice start!

Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy of the moment. The products of creativeness are within time, but the creative act itself lies outside time.

creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special?

Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

Creative vision creates art" - he motioned around the gallery - "that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's beautiful thing." "Or some sort of madness", she said.

Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front of my computer in right-brain mode, typing the things that come to mind - which become the seeds of plot. It's scary, though, because I always wonder: Is it going to be there this time?

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.

Creative and action are synonymous. You can't be creative. Without taking action.

Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.

Creative people are like a wet towel You wring them out and pick up another one.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

creative thought seems prone to flower in symbols before it ripens to fruit.

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.

Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.

Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing, or has already passed, or we can remain accessible to-even surrender to-the creative process, without insisting that we know in advance the ultimate outcome for us, our institutions, or our planet. To accept this challenge is to cherish freedom, to embrace life, and to find meaning.

Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.

Creation, like destruction, always seems to get a little out of hand; otherwise it could hardly be called creative.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

Creative energy manifests in the 'aura' of the environment - the distinct atmosphere, quality and 'air of the place.' It has a contagious effect on people. When we walk into the environment, we know immediately whether or not the energy is present. Most of us need communities as sources of motivation and vitality; and in keeping with the basic movements of energy in nature, people charge one another in positive and negative ways.

Creative life is always based on the values of the self, not on the values of the system.

Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized.

Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.

Creative people have an abiding curiosity and an insatiable desire to learn how and why things work. They take nothing for granted. They are interested in things around them and tend to stow away bits and pieces of information in their minds for the future use. And, they have a great ability to mobilize their thinking and experiences for use in solving a new problem.

Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.