Creative Quotes

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Raymond Chandler

Richard Branson

Ayn Rand

Nikos Kazantzakis

Louise Nevelson

Berenice Abbott

Mary Daly

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Richard Branson

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture

Raymond Chandler

A creative artist works on his next composition because he is not satisfied with his previous one. When he loses a critical attitude toward his own work, he ceases to be an artist.

Dmitri Shostakovich

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

Lawrence Lovasik

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

Harlan F. Stone

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Berenice Abbott

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

The gift from those I loved so tenderly added more and more impulse to my deeply seated love of the beautiful and from the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to be as a living thing, with voice and memory and memory and creative vigour.

Julia Margaret Cameron

All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Once a company that produces a certain product goes out of business, it has no simple way to uncover how its product encoded data. The code is thus lost, and the software is inaccessible. Knowledge has been destroyed.

Lawrence Lessig

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

Lawrence Clark Powell

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality," says one of my favorite Byzantine mystics. I did this when a child; I do it now as well in the most creative moments of my life.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings: Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

William Goldman

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Arthur Koestler