Creative Quotes - Page 80

In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes.

I find myself, the more I grow up the more I hang around creatives, musicians. I find them more inspiring to be around. I'd probably say that. The more creative you are - I get along with them better. There is more of an understanding.

Sometimes when you have limited resources and you really have to think about creative ways to get around some of these problems, generally the end result is better.

Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

Creative and action are synonymous. You can't be creative. Without taking action.

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

Making music, being creative in some primal way, should be fun. Listening to it or playing it can and should take you out of yourself for some brief blissful moments.

My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work, by default, is going to be judged by people.

You aren't always going to make stuff that everybody does. The sooner that you just realize that and accept that, the better. At best, hopefully, you will like it, every time, and that might not even happen. It's the nature of your work. It's just what comes with it. So, it makes it easier to deal with anybody criticizing you or anything thinking you're wonderful when you realize that you just need to focus in this one area, which is your creative fulfillment and enjoyment.

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.

The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!

Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process.

Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive.

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

My open mindedness is a product of where I came from. When you work in labor relations for a long part of your career you have to embrace the idea that an exchange of ideas can produce creative solutions.

There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

I've got what I want, and I've got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person.

But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive attribute conducive to joyful and creative living. This kind of health will not rule out and may even generate another form of ill, the boredom which is the penalty of a formula of life where nothing is left unforeseen.

I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.

In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

The most creative or versatile to date...I don't know, man. That's a good question. I didn't really think about that.