In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Your work is both good and original but the part which is original is not good and the part which is good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable. — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
“There’s a friend at the end of your pen which you can use to help you solve personal or business problems, get… — Kathleen Adams Copy Share Image
“You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and… — Ann Marie Frohoff Copy Share Image
Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that… — Ikue Mori Copy Share Image
I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Wow, I wish I could have done something like that.” That’s the thing, with other filmmakers, if I like them I just… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
I really like and singing, and songwriting and producing. It depends on the song and the mood and who I'm working with,… — Lalah Hathaway Copy Share Image
“Before I start a film or a play, I try to build a world in my mind. An imaginative world which the… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains are exactly… — Edward Anthony Spitzka Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of… — Adam Shankman Copy Share Image
This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
In the art world, originality is seen as a precious commodity and its increasingly difficult to get because the territory of art… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I could care less about popularity. I live through reality. I base myself on originality. Forget about looks. I respect personality. — Lucas Hunter Copy Share Image
“Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is said It was the dream itself enchanted me ("The Circus Animal's Desertion")” — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“Every invention begins with an original thought. You are God’s original thought. You are his initiative, the fruit of his creative inspiration,… — Francois Du Toit Copy Share Image
Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks… — Bre Pettis Copy Share Image
It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I think when you get to export your creative impulse into something, it kind of lessens that busy energy that can be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It is a very frustrating thing to be the face of a creative project and yet essentially have zero creative control over… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
That's what real punk is about - doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity. — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
“Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way,… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“When you address and acknowledge unpleasant realities, your creativity begins to soar and you come up with apparently magical solutions to problems.” — Dr. Dragos Copy Share Image
My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The… — Mary Pratt Copy Share Image
“A child knows how to image before he know how to reason. He is born with a naturally vivid and fertile imagination… — Ursula Markham Copy Share Image
Shift your frame of reference. Realise that all you see around you, the reality we perceive, is a small stage upon which… — Alex Bennett Copy Share Image
When love moves to the fifth center then whatever talents you have, any creative dimension, is possible for you. This is the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!! — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's… — Sampha Copy Share Image
“The only differences between people who think they are creative and people who think they are not are their beliefs about their… — Sanaya Roman Copy Share Image
