Top 620 Creative Quotes

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.
Paul Allen
I didn’t take into account the critical tsunami that comes with having work going out. I’ve gone from being a complete narcissist, someone who googles my own name, to someone who has to work separately from that to avoid creative paralysis.
Abi Morgan
Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.
Moira Kelly
I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.
Brandon Boyd
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players… they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
Arsene Wenger
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
Kary Mullis
Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it’s going to stifle you; it’s not conducive to the writing or recording process.
Frank Iero
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
D. H. Lawrence
For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
Octavio Paz
Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you’re working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.
Martin Scorsese
I used to put flyers on cars in parking lots, anything to get people to come to my shows. I was always having to think outside the box, and even to this day, I still try and come up with creative ways to market my shows.
Jo Koy
I don’t think I’m particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative.
Rhona Mitra
All creative people want to do the unexpected.
Hedy Lamarr
We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.
Cynthia Weil
But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there’s an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I’m basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.
Roone Arledge
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador Dali
Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.
Kristin Armstrong
Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good thing because it’s just been a struggle for me as a bass player to play with someone who’s so creative on the drums, and lately it’s been really good, especially during sound checks.
Mike Gordon
I don't repeat myself and I don't look back because eve

I don’t repeat myself and I don’t look back because everything is hard work and the only way forward is to continue to be creative.
Timbaland
The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.
Jesse James Garrett
Their argument, and I think it’s a correct one, is that they’ll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.
Mark Millar
A lot of my creative ideas begin in the pub, talking through possibilities with collaborators.
Jon Hopkins
The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.
Laini Taylor
You’re really creative when you’re in an environment that you don’t know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.
Liz Phair
In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
Wayne Dyer
Yes, money is important. But it’s all about the creative process.
Travis Scott
I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I’m still a dork.
Zoe Kravitz
How well we survive this time of creative destruction, it really is, depends on each of us, on each of us fighting our individual battles of integrity, for integrity.
Maria Ressa
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
John Baldacci
My creative process involves that old saying: It’s 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, ‘Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don’t put everything in one basket,’ but she let me explore and be creative.
Queen Latifah
Time for creative ideation and quiet reflection is as much a luxury as is the physical beauty of the space you live in.
Gauri Khan
I like to stay busy. I am a workaholic, and I like to be creative.
Glenn Danzig
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I’m concerned.
Martin Freeman
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common – the desire to write – could almost be considered meaningless.
Rachel Cusk
Creative Cloud is Adobe re-imagining itself amid a world of these three transformations – cloud, multiscreen and social computing – which are all happening at the same time.
Kevin Lynch
The most creative person is not the person who can come up with the best idea; it’s the one who can take that group of things on the table and assemble them in the greatest multiple of unique ways.
Isaac Hanson
The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the ‘Voices Compassionate Education’ website and on ‘Inner Michael’, where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson’s creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.
Aberjhani
You know, it takes a while to get used to – it’s a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.
Josh Duhamel
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
Ansel Adams
The ideal intern is committed, creative, organized, ambitious, independent, and able to crack a smile, whether meeting a celebrity or folding socks.
Emily Weiss
I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.
Dominic Cooper
What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don’t want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.
Adam Davidson
I really am into crystals. I’m a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.
Victoria Beckham
Basicly I’m in charge of all creative aspects of the show.
Craig McCracken
I really understand what that process is all about and how important it is, especially with young folk and creative folk that love looking for some platform that makes it easier for them to express themselves.
Mick Fleetwood
I really think that if there’s any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you’re doing, you’re not doing it as well as you can. Don’t think about publishing, don’t think about editors, don’t think about marketplace.
Andre Dubus III