Creative Quotes - Page 77

There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.

The best thing about my job is that I work with the best creative people in the business in their fields.

In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in the afternoons.

We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.

Don't be creative when you should be mechanical, and don't be mechanical when you should be creative.

We really need to get it together here. I think we humans are so brilliant and creative, can't we try something else?

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

For me as an actor, I find it's most creative when I'm bringing myself into the role rather than putting the role on. I feel like it's more of a cathartic experience.

I love the creative end of acting. But I hate fame.

Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.

To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved...that day, you die as a writer.

Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world.

I'm creative; I'm not re-creative.

Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.

Spiritual energy-the energy that comes from pure consciousness-is the creative energy of the universe.

There is a creative solution to every problem. Every possibility holds the promise of abundance.

I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it. I went to business school because in the '80, it was the thing to do. I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business, but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency.

For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.

The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and even contrary traditions in creative tension with one another. This diversity of libertarian ideas has created a culture of freedom which is more open and expansive than any unitary tradition alone could possibly be.

Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope, and therefore what might be described as "solidarity".

Reading a good comic is a creative act. Watching a film is often a more passive experience, and since I'm interested in engaging that conversational aspect of creativity, I'm trying to find ways of achieving that in my films.

Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks.

Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.