Top 77 Creative Person Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Creative Person Quotes from famous people such as Katherine Dunham, Tinsley Mortimer, Sufe Bradshaw, Annie Lennox, Mike Shinoda, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matt

A creative person has to create. It doesn’t really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.
Katherine Dunham
I am obviously a very creative person.
Tinsley Mortimer
I’ve always been a creative person since I was young. I enjoyed art, museums, plays, but it wasn’t until I was about 10 that my mother encouraged me to choose a career, and it was acting.
Sufe Bradshaw
As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
Annie Lennox
As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can’t shake it off.
Mike Shinoda
I am a creative person. I like painting, singing, dancing, etc.
Mouni Roy
When a well-known creative person such as me is perceived to have created a knockoff of my own previous work, such a perception is a mortal blow to my reputation as a creative person.
Saul Bass
I never studied interior design, but I’m a creative person. And what we surround ourselves with is very important – what makes you feel happy, what makes your senses feel good.
Lynn Whitfield
I think I’ve always had that struggle my whole life, of feeling a little bit more gender-neutral, feeling more comfortable as a creative person when I’m dressed like a boy, when I’m dressed more masculine.
Jill Soloway
Running a business is incredibly hard, especially as a creative person, because you’re extricated from the creative very quickly, and that is really hard. Obviously, I have experienced that first hand.
Leandra Medine
I’m already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You’re in a vacuum if you don’t have a certain amount of fame.
B. D. Wong
Creativity is an energy. It’s a precious energy, and it’s something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they’re a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can’t be taken for granted.
Ava DuVernay
You think 24-7 when you’re a creative person. And I find pleasure in everything – if I’m in a flea market, I’m there on my downtime, but I’m also there searching for the collection. I don’t separate the two.
Francisco Costa
As a creative person, you never embark on something thinking it will be substandard.
Akshaye Khanna
It’s a great thing if you’re a creative person and have some kind of acting or dance or singing, any art. I think it’s great to be around people who support that and who are into it like you are, and you can have one big family and teachers who know what they’re doing.
Jenna Dewan
I’m very much a creative person, but you’ve got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.
Pete Cashmore
In my family, it was always encouraged to become a creative person. I became a doula instead, then I married an actor, and my sisters became famous almost overnight.
Domino Kirke
You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone’s going to be into what you’re doing.
Ryan North
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
Edward Albee
For any creative person, along with learning, unlearning is also important.
Pankaj Tripathi
Being a creative person, I want to feel the highs and the lows.
Mabel
I had soaked up all of these ideas about what it meant to be a creative person from media and culture. And I had this idea in my head that if this was your calling it was supposed to be fun. It was supposed to feel good to wrestle with a blank page. And imagine my surprise when it wasn’t fun at all.
Leigh Bardugo
I feel that all girls like clothes and I’m more of a creative person. If it’s writing the album or developing the makeup range, it’s just about being creative. That for me is where I am happiest.
Nicola Roberts
It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.
Ajay Naidu
I’m a creative person, and I’ve got a lot of ideas. People probably thought that my mentality was quick fame because I made ‘Rack City’ and it blew up fast, but I have over 1,000 songs recorded.
Tyga
I’m a big people watcher and a people talker. The beautiful thing about being an artist and a creative person is that you can get an idea from anywhere, and I’m always on the hunt for them.
Ava DuVernay
If you have the ideas, and you’re a creative person, then you don’t really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
It’s a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it will feel good later, and vice versa. To write about those things brings this satisfying feeling as a creative person.
Phil Elverum
I think a really great creative person is almost by nature incredibly curious and digging deeply into cultures and technologies and getting all this input and using it to make things better – basically, creating better solutions.
Mark Parker
You’re always in a box, and you’re an escape artist if you do what I do – or if you’re a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That’s ongoing.
Bruce Springsteen
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the long labor of perfecting the tools of his art. Yet the work itself need not be explicitly evangelical in its themes and plots.
Michael O’Brien
Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is reall

Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the more soul-crushing experiences you can have as a creative person.
Tunde Adebimpe
As a director and a creative person, I can say banning anything is wrong.
Ram Gopal Varma
I want to reiterate the fact that at the core of it all, I am a designer, a creator, and as a creative person, I will choose to be limitless in the extension models of my various ideas on design.
Gauri Khan
If you are a creative person, then your mind gets sharper with age. My mind is very sharp, and I am happy for that.
Dev Anand
I could be baking a cake and I’ll do it a certain way. If you’re just a creative person, it’ll come out no matter what.
Julia Fox
An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress – and eventually formulate the questions correctly.
Lisa Randall
I think if you speak to any creative person, there’s something so powerful – so intoxicating, if you will – about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.
Jhumpa Lahiri
I’m a very creative person in general. I like to create stuff in my downtime off the court.
Grigor Dimitrov
If Id had a happy childhood I definitely wouldnt have become the person I am – although a bad childhood isnt a recipe for being a creative person. There are many people in the arts who come from perfectly happy, middle-class homes.
Grayson Perry
I’m more than a songwriter. I’m a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won’t allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There’s a reason to see me.
Ester Dean
I think that it’s important that actors keep getting challenged every day. For every creative person, it’s a terrible moment when they say they have done all they want to do.
Amitabh Bachchan
I’m a super creative person and have always loved drawing and painting since I was super young, but makeup was a new avenue for me.
James Charles
Because I’m such a creative person, and I’ve always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I’d be doing the things I’m doing today.
Paul Kane
If you’re in Bollywood and working in any category, and you receive a Filmfare Award for it, it’s a huge thing for any creative person.
Ankit Tiwari
There’s an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.
Jerry Della Femina
I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I’m a very creative person. I always liked making stuff. Apart from music, I always liked making clothes. You’re able to express yourself.
Yuna
I don’t see myself as necessarily a very creative person. I’m a technical guy.
James Murphy
I am a salesman, I am an executive, I look at budgets, I think about power politics, but then I am also a creative person.
Noah Hawley
I think as a creative person, anything you put in front of an artist, any type of medium, your specific tastes will come out.
Julia Fox
I would say any creative person has that: you can’t just force a topic. Whether you’re a painter, you want to do a cartoon. Anything. Something may come up that’s not your style or suited to what you are working on at the moment. So you file it away and hopefully find a place for it.
Kenya Barris
I feel that if you are a creative person, you choose various mediums to give vent to your ideas.
Dia Mirza
I am a very creative person.
Gemma Collins
I’m a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren’t great. But it’s getting further and further from me.
Shane McAnally
I think what I love most about the raw food thing is it’s real alchemy. It’s a really interesting science, and I think for a creative person, it’s a great way to eat.
Boy George