Quotes on Creative

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the creative ideas.

For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.

The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned.

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

We need to be creative with young people. If they have no opportunities, they will get into drugs and be vulnerable to suicide.

Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.

When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

Every aspect of life is pre-programmed to rise to its highest creative possibility. We don't have to make that happen, but we have to allow it to happen. And that itself is the struggle of life: resisting the resistant mind.

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

The secret to a happy life is to recognize that no matter what the situation, there's a creative opportunity in it. Also, finding meaning and purpose in your life to make a contribution.

Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.