Creative Quotes - Page 23

God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.

Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature...I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.

The most important thing about creativity is that you honor your creativity and you don't ever ignore it or go against what that creative image is telling you.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

You create your life through the inner power of your being, whose source is within you and yet beyond the selves that you know. Use those creative abilities with understanding abandon. Honor yourselves and move through the godliness of your being.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I cease to be carried along, when I no longer feel as though I were taking down dictation, I stop.

When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.

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 important the task must be.

How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself.

The whole thrust in my life right now is spinning my assignments around and making them work in a more personal way (...) I wanted to go back and do the original thing: one camera, one lens, one film. You really have to put yourself in a position of danger to be creative.

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

You have two choices in life - you can dissolve into the main stream or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different you must strive to be what no one else but you can be. Don’t be so concerned with the opinions of others; those who follow the quiet, creative voice from within are both fortunate and correct.

The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others.

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.