Creative Quotes · Page 60

“You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.”

— Ryan Lilly

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

— Alvin Ailey

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the…

— John Oates

I don't know what drives me, but I wake up in the morning, and I want to participate in the creative cultural…

— Dasha Zhukova

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

— John Cleese

If you had all the money in the world you still can never buy Loyalty its priceless

— Rich Homie Quan

When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

— Brenda Ueland

From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has…

— Akio Morita

I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the…

— Eric Cantona

Be confident. Be creative. Express yourself. Be Mindless and don't let anyone bring you down. Be yourself even if it means standing…

— Anonymous

When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing…

— Caio Fonseca

I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I…

— Ryan Gosling

I've done lots of stuff, but it's rare for people to come up to you and be happy about the fact that…

— Adeel Akhtar

Plan all you want for the future. Prepare for it. But don't worry about how you will react tomorrow, or even five…

— Maxwell Maltz

'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know…

— James Wolcott

Don't slag off other creators or companies. We'll cheerfully mock dumb politicians on Twitter, but we try to never slam another creator's…

— Greg Pak

The Christian is the person who sees every time and every situation, however dreary and repetitive, as God sees it - a…

— Evelyn Underhill

The breakup of my first marriage was my first failure; I had to learn to accept that and support the people involved.…

— Gary Kemp

We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the…

— Brenda Ueland

What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring that you've…

— Arno Allan Penzias

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man…

— Jonathan Raban

The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and…

— Lee Gutkind

I'll force myself to sit down and read a couple of chapters of a great book or I'll force myself to sit…

— Dan Mangan

Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.

— Merlin Mann

There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.

— Cynthia Weil

I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy…

— Tracey Emin

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

— Anonymous

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

— Minor White

That's where you just have to get creative. There are all these trampoline parks and there's bowling and there's roller skating.

— Michelle Obama

What is creative is the seeking of perfection - and not attaining it.

— Semir Zeki

Anything that propels me to create, like [my book, Straight Walk]. It kept me inspired for almost four years.

— Patricia Velasquez

I've got what I want, and I've got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I…

— Riccardo Tisci

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

Don’t tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it.

— Leo Burnett

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

— Tadao Ando

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something

— Maynard James Keenan

Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.

— Heather Sellers

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

— George Santayana

I doubt anybody would have pushed me [on the music]. When I was at Sony nobody ever gave me any creative suggestions…

— Bela Fleck