Creative Quotes - Page 43

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

I love to bake. I like to bake with wheat and try not to eat sugar so I use applesauce instead, which probably sounds really gross. When I was doing the promos we included tomatoes, mangoes, rice - all the different ways you can eat them - and we were able to incorporate some of the recipes I've learned, like a spinach mango salad. It was really fun to get creative with food because sometimes people forget that.

The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.

Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.

... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

Creative energy is more critical than learning.

I believe everybody is creative, and everybody is talented. I just don't think that everybody is disciplined. I think that's a rare commodity.

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

The key question isn't, 'What fosters creativity?' But it is, 'Why isn't everyone creative?'

Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.

You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.

We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.