Creative Quotes · Page 61

Much like a patchwork quilt, inspiration that stirs and motivates me is made of many things.

— Robert Reynolds

I don't really engage much in the creative community. I just kind of keep to myself and do my work.

— Aesop Rock

As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.

— Demetri Martin

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

— James Dickey

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

— Fannie Hurst

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

— Billy Crystal

Brazilians are very creative, not only in football but in life as well.

— Gabriel Jesus

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

— Carl Jung

I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems…

— Pablo Casals

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

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

— Arielle Ford

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

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 think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because…

— Tatiana Maslany

What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has…

— Akiva Goldsman

What keeps my flame burning is, first, I'm ornery and persistent. I don't like giving up on things and I believe in…

— Eddie Pepitone

I love to be alone, I find it necessary, but I don't know if that's just how I am or if it's…

— Rachel Kushner

It's a funny line when you're walking - the creativity, the subjectivity versus the objectivity, creativity versus the business, and recognizing that…

— Lupe Fiasco

All excuses are nothing more than misalignments with God. Just imagine the great creative Source needing an excuse. It doesn't have any…

— Wayne Dyer

I don't think I would have made 'Blank Project; if I hadn't made 'Cherry Thing.' I think that was a real rebirth…

— Neneh Cherry

When you will, make a resolution, set your jaw, you are expressing an imaginative fear that you won't do the thing. If…

— Brenda Ueland

In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator,…

— Louise Wilder

Negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you're filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let…

— David Lynch

What we love might be awkward but as long as it's clean and we offended no one, there's no reason for us…

— Jessel Jane Zozobrado

Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff.

— Philip Kaufman

It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.

— Georgina Chapman

All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. It's ridiculous how expensive it…

— Susan Choi

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

— Paul Twitchell

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act.

— Kenneth Rexroth

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

— Carol Kane

I liked school. I was creative and artistic and fit into most groups.

— Mandy Ingber

Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively.

— Guy Claxton

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

— Harvey Mackay

I love creating models and coming up with explicit structures I can play with.

— Edward C. Prescott

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

— Catherine Hardwicke

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

— Sylvia Browne

That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.

— Richard Roeper

creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special?

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Never forget that at the end of the day, as a creative person, your résumé is all you've got.

— Mark Waid