Creative Quotes

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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today. — Salman Rushdie
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist. — Salman Rushdie
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. — John Ruskin
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. — Carl Sagan
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. — J D Salinger
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. — Carl Sandburg
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. — George Santayana
It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and… — Adam Savage
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to… — Bob Schieffer
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. — Friedrich Schiller
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years. — Robert H. Schuller
Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of… — Martin Scorsese
I need to find creative diversity because if I get stuck, I get unhappy. — Jill Scott
There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids… — Jill Scott
Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he… — Jill Scott
When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined… — Will Self
I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with 'House… — Henry Selick
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the… — Dr. Seuss

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