Creative Quotes · Page 103

“Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang…

— Kia Carrington-Russell

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

— Mary Stuart Masterson

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.

— Alvin Ailey

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

— Cyril Connolly

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

— Judy Blume

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.

— Jeremy Renner

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that…

— Abigail Washburn

I'm really in such a fortunate position to have that foundation with Hall and Oates that lets me do whatever I want.…

— John Oates

Just like you, your partner wants to be loved for who they are, in spite of their shortcomings. Make an effort to…

— Arielle Ford

Also, after Examined Life was finished I found myself thinking about the way creative opportunities and distribution channels were shifting. Should I…

— Astra Taylor

I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.

— Anonymous

I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being…

— John Backus

Over time the energy generated in romance and lovemaking provides the vitality that inspires each partner for enthusiastic creative expression in life.

— John Friend

The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative…

— Steve Jobs

The thing that was forfeited in the garden was regained. God gave him [Adam] dominion over the works of His hand. God…

— John G. Lake

Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in commercial studies,…

— Walter J. Phillips

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any…

— Helen Keller

A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and…

— Stephen Spender

Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has…

— Andy Andrews

When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is -…

— Gerard Butler

Above, far above the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature. Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of…

— Vilfredo Pareto

It makes sense that it's so different from film and television, because it's so in-depth. As actors, when we're in film or…

— Zachary Quinto

“Dare to create. Dare to re-create. Daring never goes out of style.”

— Talismanist Giebra

“Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.”

— Amit Kalantri

Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress

— Anonymous

When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it's unlimited. There's nothing you cannot do.

— Byron Katie

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

— Eugenio Montale

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

— Paul Newman

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative.

— Anonymous

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

— Jane Alexander

I want creators quitting their part-time jobs and being creative for a living.

— Jack Conte

Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.

— Judy Greer

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

— Catie Curtis

My purpose is to write, be creative; to take my God-given talent and do something positive with it.

— Jani Lane

I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns

— Kanye West

The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.

— Chris Hardwick

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.

— Daniel H. Pink

My definition of Swag - being original and creative. Being on such a high level that nobody can touch you. That's swag.

— Anonymous