Creative Quotes - Page 8

What I see is trying to make sure that everybody thinks you have more than what you actually have. What’s the point if you actually don’t have it? If you don’t have it, then you don’t have it. Have what you have. Enjoy that . . . The craft is everything. Don’t be afraid of not being the wealthiest person in the room. Be the smartest person in the room. Be the slickest person in the room. Be the most creative person in the room. Be the most entertaining person in the room. Just be in the room.

Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the universal organ for world understanding through theoretical construction. Mathematics must therefore remain an essential element of the knowledge and abilities which we have to teach, of the culture we have to transmit, to the next generation.

Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

It’s critical that young people start flexing their creative muscles in order to take on the world's most complex challenges.

The creative person finds himself in a state of turmoil, restlessness, emptiness, and unbearable frustration unless he expresses his inner life in some creative way.

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

The frightening and most difficult thing about being what somebody calls a creative person is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from, really. And especially, you don't have any idea about where they're going to come from tomorrow.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.

I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.

Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate is like a jazz band without instruments: Music just isn't going to happen.

Every really good creative person in advertising has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject he could not easily get interested in...Second, he was an extensive browser in all sorts of fields of information. For it is with the advertising man as with the cow: no browsing, no milk.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

I just really enjoy the process of working with other talented, creative people. There's great power in bringing diverse points of view together. It can be incredibly stimulating.

A creative idea plus a fresh network is the best way to go from zero to millions.

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

You can only feel creative when there is joy. When there is a sense of passion.

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.