Creative Quotes - Page 26

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness of much of the tropical world that has moved and disturbed me - in places where the indigenous culture is often transformed by an external northern culture (sometimes my own... I suspect that one has a few serious creative obsessions in life. I certainly cannot seem to escape this one.

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting.

It is a function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new form. Britten's Nocturne, for example, which unifies musically a group of poems by different hands, is a notable example of his power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.

The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true.

My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.

To be more creative is to get closer to childhood.

What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event.

There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.

Release for constructive purposes the power you already have, and more will come. Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit.

Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That's not me. No more.

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.

Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.

With the practice of deep meditation the mind contacts the Bliss Consciousness of the Spirit and becomes more peaceful, happy, creative and powerful. This state of mind enriches all values of material life.