Creative Quotes - Page 19

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

People who are creative often will spend hours doing something and come out of their period of creation and not even notice that hours have passed. In that sense, they're able to time travel.

You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

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 taught me that.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

When you are in a creative or appreciative zone, you literally have no access to your inner lizard, to that fear-based, non creative, shrieking little beasty who's so afraid you're going to be a bag lady.

I don't suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don't think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They have a vague idea - a beckoning, an inkling of some truth - it is only in the process that it comes to any clarity.

I see the creative accomplishments of which highly gifted humans are capable as special cases of the universal creative process, that game played by everyone against everyone else, from which wells up all that has never been before.

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival. Over time, the richer the cultural context in terms of providing multiple experimentation and creative competition, the more likely the successful survival of the society

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I hold no emotions while I am in there... in there it is just calm and creative.

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.