Creative Quotes

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A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus… — Katherine Dunham
I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed. — Lena Dunham
I like engineering, but I love the creative input. — John Dykstra
If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it,… — James Dyson
The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world. — Steve Earle
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. — Albert Einstein
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. — Albert Einstein
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. — Albert Einstein
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. — Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain… — Albert Einstein
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
There is creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it. — Paloma Faith
Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire… — James Fenton
Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change. — Will Ferrell
Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused. — Joshua Foer
It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop… — Nhat Hanh
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. — E. M. Forster
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. — E. M. Forster
Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been. — Lukas Foss

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