There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt…

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

— Max Nordau

From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very…

— Carl Jung

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…

— Aristotle

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

— Saul Bass

I think when you get to export your creative impulse into something, it kind of lessens that busy energy that can be so confrontational…

— George Saunders

We wanted to create an opportunity for people to share anything, on their own terms, revenue and all. Get away from the commerce side…

— Aaron Dessner

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality.

— Mark Ryan

Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.'…

— Jonah Lehrer

I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that there is,…

— Quentin S. Crisp

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

— V. S. Pritchett

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative…

— Eric Hoffer

“I have long considered the creative impulse to be a visit-a thing of grace, perhaps. Not commanded, owned, so much as awaited, prepared for.…

— Loreena McKennitt

“In life, there are brief and momentary opportunities that ask us to assert our existence. Although a creative impulse, they can be destructive, because…

— Kamand Kojouri

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .

— Harriet Monroe