Quotes about creative

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.

I loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercises to stimulate subject matter: Write a poem about an imaginary landscape with real people in it. Write about a place your parents lived in before you were born. We have enough terrible poetry around without encouraging more of it.

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.

I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

I believe writing is a gift God gave us to share His thoughts poured out upon us! Writing is a talent needing care and comfort open up and let the Lord inspire you!

The core of your true self is never lost. Let go of all the pretending and the becoming you've done just to belong.Curl up with your rawness and come home. You don't have to find yourself you just have to let yourself in.

For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

The darkest night in someone's life may be the brightest day in another person's life. Life rests on perceptions and conceptions or missed perceptions and misconceptions. You can choose to make good things out of every challenging circumstance. In contrast, you can also choose to see nothing in a creative opportunity.

When I was bartering to gain clients, I was self-sabotaging my business. I wasn’t making money, and the promised “exchange of advertising” wasn’t helping to grow my business.

Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.

Be creative and daring in your dreams and the steps you take to bring them to fruition.

Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.

Thoughts have creative energy exhilaration is required to creates dissolves and recreates.

The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.

Everyone has a story within them, let yours out.

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.

Masters are not created by anyone, They are just GOD gifted to change the WORLD.

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.

Explore your inner creative genius through the medium you love and enjoy the journey!

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

Let us not fear our wild thoughts for they can give rise to wondrous contemplation, creative endeavour, life changing ideas, momentous bliss.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are.

Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that.

Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.

Writers fly with imaginary wings.

Stop fishing for deep sea perch in a pond, because when you reel in gold fish, you’ll only end up disappointed. In time the thrill of catching will wear off, and then you’ll realise it’s not the deep sea dwelling creature you were truly after.See when your own depths match that of the ocean, you will eventually need to accept that no pond can fill you.

Creative people need strong encouragement.

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to "wrapping one of his romantic flings in cellophane" for later artistic use and notes that "this kind of heartless but honest professionalism is not uncommon among creative people.

When you are happy, you are free; when you are free, you can be creative; when you are creative, your divine self comes out.

You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.

Perspective: it is the creativity we possess, the beliefs we follow and the lessons we learn.

The best creates, the rest follows

Writing is like talking to yourself, just in a way that makes it look like you're not crazy!

Get in touch with your intuitive and creative powers, bring your desires to life in order to create a life of bliss.

Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life.

Hold on to God, hold on to your visions and continue to develop them

Saxon and I had no business even attempting any type of relationship with each other. We were gunpowder and one hell of a spark, and I wasn't about to test our combustibility.

All political movements are basically anti-creative — since a political movement is a form of war. “There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here,” that’s what they always say. “Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around.” “As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers.” Both favor alcohol and are against pot.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.

Nature is powerful and beautiful,Nature is destructive and creative,Nature is amazing and wonderful,Nature is loving and graceful.

If you took the world away and just left the elctricity, it would look like the most exquisite filigree ever made - a ball of twinkling silver lines with the occasional coruscating spike of a satellite beam. Even the dark areas would glow with radar and commercial radio waves. It could be the nervous system of a great beast.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.

Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days that had yet to come.

I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky

Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.

Kids can be more creative and smarter if parents ddidn’t want them to be first & best.

Innovation lies in a creative mind

It’s amazing what you can do when you get creative.

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

Garbage, in its "worthless" state, is the primary fuel for creativity.

People gravitate toward products that are bold, but instantly comprehensible: Most Advanced Yet Acceptable--MAYA.

Most consumers are simultaneously neophilic, curious to discover new things, and deeply neophobic, afraid of anything that is too new. The best hit makers are gifted at creating moments of meaning by marrying new and old, anxiety and understanding. They are architects of familiar surprises.

This might be the most important question for every creator and maker in the world: how do you make something new if most people just like what they know? Is it possible to surprise with familiarity?

This sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.

She had turned thought and feeling into life, into reality, into creation. They speak of the _creations_ of the human intellect, of the human imagination! there is nothing man can do comes half so near the making of the Maker as the ordering of his way--except one thing: the highest creation of which man is capable, is to will the will of the Father. That _has_ in it an element of the purely creative, and then is man likest God. But simply to do what we ought, is an altogether higher, diviner, m

There are times when creation can be achieved only through destruction. The urge to destroy is then a creative urge.

In this world of stars, I just want to be different

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

My best ideas come in the shower, where I’m showered with water, but also ideas.

We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work.

Our best canvas is all around us, in everything we touch and do.

If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you're so original.

Never be ashamed of madness, instead be ashamed of people that are ashamed of madness. Without a little bit of insanity, we would have never had the Theory of Relativity, electricity, airplanes, cars or your beloved iPhone. Madness got you that.

… in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the sacred isle of Éire, regardless of its creative custodian never having been taught how to freely speculate, how to profoundly question, and how to playfully define. Spontaneity of speculation being synonymous with the philosophical-poetic, the philosophical-poetic with the rural philosopher-poet, and by roundelay the rural philosopher-poet thee with the spontaneit

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

The knowledge of the worker is often called ‘skill’, for it requires manual dexterity and training. The knowledge of the manager is ‘academic’ as it can be taught in colleges and universities. However, the knowledge of the leader is ‘creative’ which can generally not be taught, and must come from within.

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.

I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting

The Lord has made us to be creative, and the sense of achievement will help to lift our spirits.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

A creative person is one who has insight, who can see things nobody else has ever seen before, who hears things that nobody has heard before—then there is creativity.

Smile at your critics for they have yet to see the universe that exists outside the box

The total destruction of falsehood allows authentic creative flow to happen.

The balls it took to proclaim a creative profession, the narcissism.

If you do something different, you leave your herd! And to leave your herd means to reborn with creative abilities!

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

Traveling around the country, meeting fans and hearing their stories in person and on my radio show has reenergized my commitment to creating honest and inspirational content that not only serves my own creative purposes but can help and touch others as well.

I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

Nothing that Robert Plant does will ever equal Led Zeppelin, but that doesn't mean he's going to stop being creative. Jimmy Page has so many incredibly cool projects, but it's not Led Zeppelin; there will only ever be one Led Zeppelin.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.