Best Creative Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.”

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“If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.”

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Author:Jonah Lehrer

“What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.”

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Author:Jonah Lehrer

“I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“I've got more creative control when I do music.”

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Author:Method Man

“I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.”

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Author:Raine Maida

“They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.”

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Author:Teena Marie

“I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.”

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Author:B. J. Novak

“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.”

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Author:Ajay Naidu

“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.”

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Author:Chris Noth

“When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.”

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Author:Don Nelson

“Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.”

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Author:Chris Ofili

“I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording.”

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Author:Richard O'Brien

“What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.”

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Author:Kal Penn

“I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.”

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Author:Kevin Pollak

“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”

“I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.”

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Author:Brie Larson

“The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.”

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Author:Dennis Lehane

“My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.”

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Author:Dylan Lauren

“The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then gotten picked up. I think it's a great opportunity for artists to get through the network roadblock. It just allows us another venue to be creative in.”

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Author:Eva LaRue

“People are doing what they can these days and looking for creative ways to sell music.”

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Author:Greg Laswell

“I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.”

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Author:Guy Laliberte

“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.”

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Author:Guy Laliberte

“The choices I make - they have to be creative.”

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Author:Huey Lewis

“I'm a people person, very approachable. I go out every night, tons of functions. I love all facets of this industry... Music, film, TV, books, art. I love being around creative people.”

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Author:Guy Oseary

“I'm a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning - you never know what you're gonna get in my shake... fruit? Peanut butter? Ice-cream?”

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Author:Christina Perri

“Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.”

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Author:Nancy Pearcey

“I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you to concentrate more on the story and the characters. I think that there is something about dirty, gritty and raw filmmaking that makes it feel a little more natural and makes it easier to connect with the action.”

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Author:Oren Peli

“Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.”

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Author:Steven Pressfield

“I love creative people.”

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Author:Zac Posen

“Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.”

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Author:Joy Page

“Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.”

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Author:Michael Polanyi

“As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of the day, if you have made a film it's totally your responsibility, and if it works it's your responsibility and if it doesn't it's also your responsibility.”

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Author:Teresa Palmer

“I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.”

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Author:Ian Rankin

“I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.”

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Author:Alfonso Ribeiro

“I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.”

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Author:Johannes Rau

“But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.”

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Author:Josh Radnor

“I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.”

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Author:Nikki Reed

“Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It's not stagnant. I don't get upset about it.”

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Author:Phylicia Rashad

“I would say on a creative level I put a lot of pressure on myself.”

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Author:Shawn Ryan

“My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.”

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Author:Dana Spiotta

“I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.”

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Author:Taiye Selasi

“You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.”

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Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution.”

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Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.”

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Author:George Saunders

“Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things in your life? Are you adopting superficial values? Are you giving your being enough room? Are you doing new and creative things?”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.”

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Author:Nadine Gordimer

“If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.”

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Author:Julianna Baggott

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