Creative Quotes

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All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction. — Yi-Fu Tuan
All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur. — Tennessee Williams
Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are… — Deborah Moggach
I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker. — Kevin Smith
(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life. — Jerry Lewis
The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace. — George W. Bush
If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world, we… — Ellen Langer
All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When… — Eddie Murphy
Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and… — Avi Arad
The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common… — Carl Jung
Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Your reactions, whether positive or negative, are creative of future circumstances. In your imagination, you can hear words congratulating you on getting a wonderful new… — Neville Goddard
Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act. — Rollo May
At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not… — Daniel B. Wallace
Have patience with all things - but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable,… — Saint Francis de Sales
I have to be creative to be happy. — Gwen Stefani
When something in life occurs that is troubling, we are supposed to not dwell on the thing itself. Instead, the focus should be on our… — Matt Smith
It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how… — Humphrey Bogart
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in… — Ken Robinson
We have a natural creative ability and it is very important to realize this. — Dalai Lama

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