Creative Quotes - page 7

Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor. (L. Ron Hubbard)
Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be. View quote
Willa Cather
creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special? View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism - real life - the now. View quote
Berenice Abbott
It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist. View quote
Stanislaw Ulam
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. View quote
Harriet Martineau
The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way. View quote
Betty Friedan
You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves. View quote
Yanni
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. View quote
Mary Daly
Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality. (A.C. Cuza)
It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There is an alienation from emotion in it, a Nervous Nelly fear of letting go and being "exposed." As an attitude towards life, it betrays a perpetual adolescence. Those who hurled themselves after Derrida were not the most sophisticated but the most pretentious, and least creative members of my generation of academics. View quote
Camille Paglia
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. View quote
Matthew Arnold
I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music I am creating is a result of traveling down that road and picking up all manner of themes and influences, which may or may not be overtly Celtic in nature. View quote
Loreena McKennitt
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. View quote
Dorothy Thompson
We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images, not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities. View quote
Naum Gabo
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. View quote
Alan Alda
There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be experimenting on their own. Every writer faces different problems which he must solve for himself. View quote
John Dos Passos
You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
'World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen," I continued "A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit. (Paramahansa Yogananda)
"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora. View quote
David Brin
You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen.. ..when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things. View quote
Carl Andre
Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations. View quote
Leo Burnett