Creative Quotes · Page 87

The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.

— Pierre Berton

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Energy is our most precious resource, for it is the means by which we transform our creative potential into meaningful action.

— Tarthang Tulku

Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.

— Ryan Kavanaugh

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

— Fred Ward

Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do.

— Norman Vincent Peale

“No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.”

— Shannon L. Alder

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

— Joseph Campbell

I'm trying to figure out what I can do creatively. It's about trying to find new things and trying to figure out…

— Anton Yelchin

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into…

— Roger von Oech

The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

— Jordan Peterson

In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in…

— Garance Dore

If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk…

— Edward Albee

The subjective element in geological studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists. One considering geology as a…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need…

— Alvar Aalto

It's a film made in a very radical creative manner. It was possible because we didn't have to pander to capitalism. I…

— Alex Abreu

I always chose talkative people. And Viva, who was my first wife - we started making films together because she was extraordinarily…

— Michel Auder

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For me, creative energy is like an old-fashioned ground-water well. When the well is dry, it’s dry. I can dig all I…

— Delia Sherman

Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else’s needs and laundry…

— Anne Lamott

Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and…

— Eric Hoffer

The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment,…

— Edward Weston

Thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will…

— Wallace D. Wattles

Weave your creative threads in the dark and then when the sun hits them, they will glisten with intricate beauty.

— Ted Andrews

In our willingness to step into the unknown, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.

— Deepak Chopra

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

— Ethan Hawke

“Imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be--it is everything.”

— Dalton Frey

Be more tolerant of the difficult people. They're the creative ones. They're not happy with the status quo.

— Terry Leahy

I'm really happy with everything that I've been fortunate enough to do and with the creative outlets I've been blessed to have.

— Erin Wasson

I think women who are very creative and giving members of society can be respected and accepted.

— Mary Gaitskill

The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.

— Bill Crawford

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

— Alec Guinness

I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.

— May Sarton

I really want to be creative. I want to innovate. I want to be innovative, and I want to do things that…

— Matt Hardy

A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame…

— Dean Koontz

The Most Creative Shortcut to Success Is to Reevaluate What Success Means to You.

— Ernie J Zelinski

I need to find creative diversity because if I get stuck, I get unhappy.

— Jill Scott

“Art is anything you can get lost in. It's a place to escape and a place to find yourself.”

— Heloise Clough

Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress...

— John Muir