Top 35 Creative Work Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Creative Work Quotes from famous people such as Guy Laliberte, Ro Khanna, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Kyp Malone, Lydia Millet, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to a

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.
Guy Laliberte
We know that almost all Americans are avid consumers of technology, but many lack the opportunity to do the creative work that fuels our digital economy.
Ro Khanna
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don’t feel one way all the time, so I don’t want my music to feel the same way all the time.
Kyp Malone
If you’re doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial – even if what you’re doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn’t have to be trivial.
Lydia Millet
We love the Vice guys; we believe in them. We’re investors. We believe in them, in the creative work that they’ve done… What they built is incredible.
Nancy Dubuc
It’s nice to have a variety in creative work that I like to do.
Ross Lynch
It may be that learning to do creative work of any kind – not just direct imagery exercises – may help combat writer’s block.
Maria Konnikova
Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
Jeanette Winterson
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.
Lawrence Lessig
I don’t believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.
Rachel Kushner
We can all accept criticism of creative work, but to be publicly ridiculed for it is incredibly difficult to deal with.
Craig David
The 1980s were fantastic. This was a time when we were at the peak of our creative work. The question of whether we would exist or not – something which everybody used to ask, including ourselves – stopped. Profits kept pace with growth requirements. HCL had credibility – that was the biggest barrier we had to break.
Shiv Nadar
I am very much aware of my own double self. The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work – he is in touch with the child. He is not rational; he is impulsive and extremely emotional.
Ingmar Bergman
Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren’t clear about where the line is any more, beyond which life gets really nasty and you become a dissident without having intended ever to be one.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Creating and producing creative work, to me, those are all happy accidents.
Jim Lee
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
Maria Montessori
I went into academia thinking that there’d be constant reciprocity between my scholarship and my creative work but found that doing one always turned my mind into the sort of tool that was badly suited to doing the other.
Alexandra Kleeman
Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their ‘white’ culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.
Langston Hughes
At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.
Chris Noth
I think anyone who lays a long trail of creative work over the years can’t help but look back and wonder, ‘What was I thinking?’
Joe Satriani
Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics.
Ryan North
I keep my mind on track, and I don’t get mad, and I don’t get frustrated. Well, I do… but creative work, it’s a way of controlling all that.
Ry Cooder
For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.
William Jay Smith
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Friedrich Schiller
From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.
Kaja Foglio
In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.
Will Self
All too often, when creative people pick out someone else’s creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.
Samuel R. Delany
I have to watch quite a lot of films for work and I really enjoy going to the cinema and watching someone’s creative work.
Edith Bowman
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn’t. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day’s work in his last fifty years.
Stephen Leacock
In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that’s absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children’s books. In Japan, everything is art. They don’t say painting is better than ceramics or dress design.
Brian Wildsmith
I believe in creative work.

I believe in creative work.
Demian Bichir
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
Joichi Ito
Our education system has succeeded so far in teaching generations to do different routine tasks. So when tractors displaced farming labor, we taught the next generation to work in factories. But what we’ve never really been good at is teaching a huge number of people to do non-routine creative work.
Andrew Ng