Creative Quotes

3627 quotes by 2419 authors

America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed… — Henry Miller
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. — Stephen King
Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that… — Aberjhani
Creative vision creates art" - he motioned around the gallery - "that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's beautiful thing." "Or… — Melissa Marr
I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have… — Anna Deavere Smith
What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion â€¦ whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful… — Michael Crichton
Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more… — Donald Miller
I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something… — Gretchen Rubin
Find Eloy. Smack his head into a wall, dance on his guts... I'd get creative. Spontaneous like. — Kim Harrison
The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge — China Mieville
Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the… — Anthony Kiedis
Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake. — John Cleese
We are never more creative than when we are at odds with the world and there is nothing so artistically destructive as comfort. Princess Leia… — Simon Pegg
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and… — John Gardner
Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of… — Philip Zimbardo
In many college English courses the words â€œmythâ€ and â€œsymbolâ€ are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ainâ€™t no good unless you can… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." - — Stephen King

Who Wrote These Creative Quotes

2,419 authors contributed a total of 3,627 Creative Quotes, led by these top contributors: