Creative Quotes · Page 7

A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

— Mark Nepo

“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in…

— Anonymous

I got into acting because I wanted to act and I love acting. That's my true north: to be creative and to…

— Mark Ruffalo

“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.…

— Walter Isaacson

“Esperanza's side had so many colors, Crayola sent a scout.”

— Harlan Coben

The perennial gale of creative destruction

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

I don't know that Brandy [Burre] would ever categorize herself as being trapped, but I felt like I saw her being trapped.…

— Robert Greene

Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as…

— Dan Bucatinsky

To work with Ken Branagh was amazing; it was always a dream of mine to work with a man as creative and…

— Josh Dallas

We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the…

— Wole Soyinka

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must…

— Judy Collins

I'm a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving…

— Aaron Rose

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be…

— Kanye West

I thought it [Star Wars] was too wacky for the general public. Right or wrong this is my movie, this is my…

— George Lucas

Building a house is like producing a movie. There's no right way to do it but a lot of wrong ways. You…

— Jeremy Renner

It's not my job at the Institute to teach where people are in the art world - in the world of art…

— Lawrence Jordan

All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for…

— Ava DuVernay

Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed…

— Jim Carrey

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

— Ava DuVernay

Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

We are all born creative. We just got it educated out of us.

— Tham Khai Meng

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

— Pattiann Rogers

Instead of yelling and spanking, which dont work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things…

— Patricia Richardson

If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new…

— Terence McKenna

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

— Martin Luther King, Jr