Best 3399 quotes in «creative quotes» category

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 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 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 director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

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.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.

As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.

As a kid I was goofy and creative and sensitive. I like to think I'm all of those now too - just with wrinkles.

As an actor, you want to be open to the unexpected. So in order to be open to that, you do have to get out of your discursive mind just like in any creative process, this isn't just about acting. So you have to learn a little bit how to work with your own mind.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

As an actor, you are sort of only in charge of yourself. All you can really control is your performance. You don't know what they're going to do with it in the editing room, what they're going to cut out, which take they're going to use. You know, your control is very limited. As a director, it's ultimately your piece. You have a lot more responsibility, but you also have a lot more creative control. It's scary, but also liberating in a way.

As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. Its like watching a masterpiece.

As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake - and then you can have a second cake if you wanted to.