Creative Quotes
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Gratitude in advance is the most powerful
creative force in the universe.
- Neale Donald Walsch

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay

To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein

To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu

The mind of man is continuously unfolding
into a greater recognition of its real plan
in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience,
independent will and creative imagination.
These give us the ultimate human freedom...
The power to choose, to respond, to change.
- Stephen Covey

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement
and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fill your heart with the creative power
to accept the past,
decorate the present
and transform the future.
- Osho

The creation of something new
is not accomplished by the intellect
but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.
The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl Jung

The very essence of the creative is its novelty,
and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
- Carl Rogers

Without this playing with fantasy,
no creative work has ever yet come to birth.
The debt we owe to the play of
the imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve,
not by the desire to beat others.
- Ayn Rand

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.
- John H. Johnson

Vision is the true creative rhythm.
- Robert Delaunay

Since new developments are
the products of a creative mind,
we must therefore stimulate and encourage
that type of mind in every way possible.
- George Washington Carver

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life
stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein

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

Reading, after a certain age,
diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein

The creative act lasts but a brief moment,
a lightning instant of give-and-take,
just long enough for you to level the camera and to
trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

My hand is the extension of the thinking process -
the creative process.
- Tadao Ando

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous,
but also more vulnerable.
- Lord Robertson

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

I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy,
creative people.
- Kristin Davis

I like the creative aspect of developing a project.
- Priscilla Presley

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.
- Conrad Hall

I like the way remixes sound.
Some of them are really creative.
- Ann Wilson

Creative work is incredibly difficult,
and that is where the tests lie.
- Jeanette Winterson

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical
faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
- W. Somerset Maugham

I've now returned to the business again because I finally
realised that I really enjoy the creative process.
- Gil Gerard

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas.
It is a creative art.
- Ansel Adams

Creative people who have made their seemingly most
self-indulgent artistic whims into a career.
- Steve Purcell

Security is, I would say, our top priority because
for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers -
organizing your lives,
staying in touch with people, being creative -
if we don't solve these security problems,
then people will hold back.
- Bill Gates

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
- Harlan Stone

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation,
but it can no longer be creative itself.
- Kenzo Tange

It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for
that length of time and not fall out.
- Jim Sullivan

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.
- Bruce Dickinson

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity.
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right,
or better.
- John Updike

I think that those elements - light and sound -
are beyond democratic.
They're into the creative part of life.
- Ornette Coleman

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp
of the individual who possesses it.
- Madame de Stael

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

Be brave enough to live life creatively.
The creative place where no one else has ever been.
- Alan Alda

Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild,
doing the wild thing.
I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here,
in my creative space.
- Bootsy Collins

The creative works of the entertainment industry belong
to the millions of people who make them and are not
for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
- Dan Glickman

Physical fitness is not only one of
the most important keys to a healthy body,
it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
- John F. Kennedy

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory.
The best non-fiction is also creative.
- Tracy Kidder

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance
in this crazy world that we all live in.
- Jimmy Carl Black

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act,
we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
- Atom Egoyan

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process
is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
- Garth Hudson

The world, as transformed by this creative deed,
is better than it would have been had all else remained the same,
but had that deed of treason not been done at all.
- Josiah Royce

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture.
The rock guides me to the final sculpture.
I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.
- Jimmy Carl Black

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative
painter than to paint a rose,
because before he can do so he has first to forget
all the roses that were ever painted.
- Henri Matisse

You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side.
We have constantly surprised people and stayed with
bands until they have grown on people.
- Greg Ginn

All creative people want to do the unexpected.
- Hedy Lamarr

Acting isn't really a creative profession.
It's an interpretative one.
- Paul Newman

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
- Lawrence Welk

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader
to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
- David Foster Wallace

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist
his most vital source of creative energy.
- Montgomery Clift

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and
need calls for some spirited and creative innovations
both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
- Anne Sullivan Macy

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity,
the rules are pretty much the same.
- Bill Toomey

All creative people should be required to leave California
for three months every year.
- Gloria Swanson

I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.
- Jeff Ament

It used to be that creative music was most of the music
that you heard back in the '30s and '40s,
and now it's like 3 percent.
So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.
- Charlie Haden

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be
perceived in other creative endeavors.
- Vernor Vinge

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be,
which was creative, original music.
- Missy Elliot

The creative act is not pure.
History evidences it.
Sociology extracts it.
The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes
to realize that he is answerable.
- Nadine Gordimer

We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs.
We write them together; we just get in a room,
or on occasion in Flea's garage.
We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.
- Chad Smith