Creative Quotes · Page 63

It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.

— Edmond Jabes

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

— Don Roff

A creative life is not just for those fictional few who are "touched by the hand of God." We are all touched…

— Joseph Curiale

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

— Joanne Greenberg

I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.

— Jessa Crispin

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

— Edie Brickell

All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

— James Martineau

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

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away…

— Colson Whitehead

Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality…

— Albert Einstein

Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when…

— Joe Murray

Just tasking a team to be creative won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the…

— Steve Brown

“When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive,…

— Toba Beta

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in…

— Barbara Hepworth

I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than…

— Etgar Keret

The experience of both acting and producing has been wonderful. It certainly has created a full plate. But it is very exciting…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about…

— Susan Downey

There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well is drying up. It's…

— Kelley Armstrong

I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes…

— Olaf Stapledon

Historically, opportunity has been afforded to a limited pool of people, excluding people of color and women. That doesn't diminish the talent…

— Joe Robert Cole

The mathematics is the odd one, odd because I'm not sure how to measure its effect. It is so fundamental to my…

— Zia Haider Rahman

Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle…

— Duncan Long

Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company.

— David Cronenberg

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

— Frank Wedekind

Do what is right... do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative - thats important. Dont follow what other people are doing.

— John Gokongwei

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

— Gail Caldwell

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

— Frank Iero

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

— Denzel Washington

Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can't enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in…

— Kyle Chandler

According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.

— Robert Genn

Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius

— Marshall Cook

I have to have a creative role; otherwise, I simply wouldn't come into work.

— Hideo Kojima

All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

— Julia Cameron

Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.

— Elaine Dundon

Leaders are creators. They bring their visions to fruitition through the creative process.

— Phil Pringle

My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.

— Jack Kilmer

To be a hacker - when I use the term - is somebody who is creative and does wonderful things.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

— Kenzo Tange