Creative Quotes

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The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff. — Austin Kleon
Colour is a creative element, not a trimming. — Piet Zwart
George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he… — Gary Wright
Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around… — Abigail Washburn
We makeup artists are a unique bunch of people; we don't have the classic brain, the classic training, but we're creative, so we figure it… — Bobbi Brown
The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for… — Louis Kahn
My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do — Tony Bennett
One of the few graces of getting old-and God knows there are few graces-is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the… — Maurice Sendak
Promoting health without encouraging others to seek wholeness is an exercise in futility. Not until we realize that our bodies are mirrors of our interpersonal,… — Lissa Rankin
The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the… — Terence McKenna
To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute… — Dwight V. Swain
If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If you… — Anne Rice
There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest. — Margaret Mead
You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can… — David Simon
It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is retain your vision, stick to… — Wallace D. Wattles
I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to… — Amitabh Bachchan
As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected. — Julia Cameron
Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
We are educating people out of their creative capacities. — Ken Robinson
It [doesn't matter] what you look like, where you come from, or what you do for a living. All that matters is that we continue… — Janine Shepherd

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