Being Creative Quotes

I've been singing since I was two. Music was my first passion and I love writing, singing, creating and being creative. ~ Jojo

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a
mistake. ~ John Cleese

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something. ~ Ken Robinson

I wish I had a dollar for every time someone said, "Me? No, I'm not creative". I would be gazillionaire. The thing is, that's not really them talking, it's their jerkface inner critic. Okay, so maybe you haven't made anything in a very long time, but that doesn't mean you're not creative. What it means is that, somewhere along the way, you became really good at saying "Me? No, I'm not creative". ~ Danielle Krysa

Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative. ~ Ken Robinson

What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It's about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It's about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it's about being creative. ~ Shaun White

Being creative and playing with your content during the holidays is a great idea. But straying too far from your fundamental brand (from address, logo, etc.) can be a dangerous game. Your recipients need to be able to recognize you during this busy time of year. ~ Paul Ford

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress. ~ Ken Robinson

I am happiest when I am working though, when I am being creative. I realized at a very young age what I loved doing. I think it is so important for people to pursue the things that they love and not give up on their dreams. ~ Josh Peck

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

Being right is based upon knowledge and experience and is often provable. Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality. Experience is built from solutions to old situations and problems. The old situations are probably different from the present ones, so that old solutions will have to be bent to fit new problems (and possibly fit badly). Also the likelihood is that, if you've got the experience, you'll probably use it. This is lazy. Experience is the opposite of being creative. If you can prove you're right you're set in concrete. You cannot move with the times or with other people. Being right is also being boring. Your mind is closed. You are not open to new ideas. You are rooted in your own rightness, which is arrogant. Arrogance is a valuable tool, but only if used very sparingly. Worst of all, being right has a tone of morality about it. To be anything else sounds weak or fallible, and people who are right would hate to be thought fallible. So: it's wrong to be right, because people who are right are rooted in the past, rigid-minded, dull and smug. There's no talking to them. ~ Paul Arden

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative. ~ Scott Caan

I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints. ~ Greg Fitzsimmons

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back. ~ Bill Gates

I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work. ~ Jeff Garlin

I still love being creative. I still love the aspects of working together with great, talented people. But it's a weird dichotomy; I'm being blessed with more opportunities, but I'm going to be taking less of them. ~ Sandra Bullock

I feel like I have everything else as far as being creative and athletic. But it's the little things that's going to push me over, like ball-handling, passing, boxing out when I'm setting screens. Little things like that that you would overlook that can make me a complete player. ~ Derrick Rose

I think it's the curse of being creative , sadness is always your pal. ~ Amy Fernandes

All things considered, I've learned more from talking to painters than talking to writers. Not that painters are smarter than writers, such is seldom the case, but in conversation writers are inclined to waste an inordinate amount of time either bragging or bellyaching about reviews and royalties, complaining about their publishers, or dissing other authors. Painters, being equally insecure, can likewise come across as boring and bitchy
it's tough being creative in a materialistic society
but since they labor not in vineyards of verbiage but upon ice floes of visual images, they tend to function with fewer inhibitions than the wordsmiths when it comes to vocally exploring and expressing ideas. Since no one judges their speech, comparing it to their written work, they don't feel so acutely the weight of language. ~ Tom Robbins

After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to establish routines for themselves. ~ Twyla Tharp

Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations. ~ Woody Allen

My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch. ~ Julie Delpy

Are you an artist?
I ask this question a lot. Generally, this question is met with a pause and a slightly blank look. In that moment I can almost hear the inner dialogue: "Um, Artist? Well, no. I make stuff. Sometimes. But an "Artist" with a capital A? I want to say yes, but that would be terrifying". What actually comes out of the person's mouth is usually, "Oh. Uh, not really". I should mention that this answer, and those blank looks, are always from adults. When I ask kids the same question, I get a very different response. It goes a little something like this: "Are you an artist?" "Yes". No hesitation. No thinking it over first. They have never sold a painting, or published a story, but they have absolutely no problem answering me with a loud, resounding yes. ~ Danielle Krysa

Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences." Kevin Kelly ~ Timothy Ferriss

I love improving, I love being creative and I love being my own boss. ~ Teddy Sears

Tim Olyphant is a machine. He never stops thinking and being creative. ~ Mykelti Williamson

The essence of being human is being creative. ~ Joel Garreau

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education. ~ William Wiley

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul. ~ Bob Ross

Learn from your rejections and polish your craft. Write for the sheer joy of being creative. ~ Jonathan Weeks

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead. ~ Jeremy Renner

The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity ... ~ Marianne Williamson

"Why is the creative entrepreneur the riskiest type to be?" I asked. "Because being creative means you are often a pioneer. It is easy to copy a successful and proven product. It is also less risky. If you learn to innovate, create, or invent your way to success, you are an entrepreneur creating new value rather than an entrepreneur who wins by copying." ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Being creative, joyful, happy, and beloved are the ultimate purposes of a profound life. ~ Debasish Mridha

I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it. ~ Jim Carrey

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur. ~ Jane Seymour

If I waited until I felt creative, I would never have had a career. I long ago learned that a day that starts out badly, when nothing comes out on the page or comes out wrong, can suddenly turn into a good day a few hours later, when suddenly everything starts to click. The brain can be cajoled into being creative. ~ Dean Koontz

To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went. ~ Bethany Hamilton

Being creative is good for the mind... I write because I don't want to take Prozac! ~ Flossy Abraham

Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job ~ David Byrne

Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative. ~ Wil Wheaton

Even as a footballer, I was always being creative. ~ Eric Cantona

Creative activity is one of the few self rewarding activities. Being creative is like being in love! ~ Woodie Flowers

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian. ~ Chris Tucker

A true great artist at heart never ceases to create, continuously amazes and keeps sharing his gift despite barriers, judgement, fears and dreaded myths. If you stopped being creative out of fear or loss of self-esteem or pride, you were never an artist first and foremost for you have ran away from your true calling. - Elizabeth's Quotes ~ Elizabeth E. Castillo

If I am not being creative, I get creative with ways to destroy myself. ~ Gay Walley

Being creative is not something you do. Its something you are. Each moment of ur life is creative ~ Abhinav Srivastava

I'm trained as an architect; writing is like architecture. In buildings, there are design motifs that occur again and again, that repeat
patterns, curves. These motifs help us feel comfortable in a physical space. And the same works in writing, I've found. For me, the way words, punctuation and paragraphs fall on the page is important as well
the graphic design of the language. That was why the words and thoughts of Estha and Rahel, the twins, were so playful on the page ... I was being creative with their design. Words were broken apart, and then sometimes fused together. "Later" became "Lay. Ter." "An owl" became "A Nowl." "Sour metal smell" became "sourmetal smell."
Repetition I love, and used because it made me feel safe. Repeated words and phrases have a rocking feeling, like a lullaby. They help take away the shock of the plot
death, lives destroyed or the horror of the settings
a crazy, chaotic, emotional house, the sinister movie theater. ~ Arundhati Roy

Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration. ~ Kevin Ashton

Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines. ~ David Ayer

If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are. ~ Austin Kleon

I love being creative. ~ Joanna Noelle Levesque

Our students sometimes use their creativity to do wrong things, and we therefore conclude that we must keep them from being creative. But evil cannot be blamed on creativity. (p31) ~ Donovan L. Graham

That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of connecting with yourself and with nature. ~ Chris Sharma

Being wrong is part of being creative. You really can't make any kind of creative contribution without doing it wrong a few times. There's just no other way to do it. ~ Jim Hough

You're not always going to hit the bull's-eye. I'm going to make movies that work and I'm going to make movies that don't work, and that's just a part of being creative. Because really, I think if you're taking risks and you're pushing yourself and you're doing things that scare you, you are going to fall on your face, and it's not always going to work. ~ Hilary Swank

creativity isn't a luxury. It's the essence of life. It's what distinguishes us from the mush. And it's why our ancestors survived while other less adaptive critters perished. They responded to change by being creative in some way, by inventing a new answer to the chaos. ~ Danny Gregory

My favorite thing [about surfing] is being creative on waves; it's like an art form. You can do whatever you want on that wave if you work hard at it and just have fun out there. ~ Bethany Hamilton

I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that. ~ Abbie Cornish

If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going. ~ Chuck Barris

I feel like that's what being creative is: It's you bouncing with emotion and what you capture in those bounces. Accept where you are and use it. ~ Albert Hammond, Jr.

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative. ~ Jerry Harrison

You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change. ~ Hans Vestberg

And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time. ~ Jackie DeShannon

I think I'm just too desirable when I'm being creative, and I want to know what I need to do to lessen my attractiveness. If that's even possible. ~ Colleen Hoover

Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world. ~ Robert Greene

I'm not extravagant, so I won't need to rein it in too much. Me and my friend make each other cards. I love being creative and making things. But a better credit crunch idea is to not even bother sending cards. ~ Konnie Huq

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is. ~ Larry Mullen, Jr.

Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being "creative" and before you know it, you're writing. ~ Cory Doctorow

While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough. ~ John Cleese

The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything. ~ Trey Parker

I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process. ~ Art Alexakis

Art invites us to become explorers and excavators of our vast internal landscapes, discovering new terrain and digging deep into the past to unearth forgotten experiences and emotion. ~ Jaeda DeWalt

Making art, being creative, is risky, especially for actors, but everybody on the set is being creative. You're putting yourself out there with ideas, and to have your brain be free of stress so that it can actually do its best work, it feels like you want to have a real sense of intimacy and connection and trust with everybody. ~ Lynn Shelton

I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon. ~ Hal Elrod

Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused. ~ Joshua Foer

[At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning to use your gift for being able to let loose and be very unself-conscious. It took me time though before I was really able to get comfortable doing that. ~ Amy Poehler

My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking myself questions, looking outside myself for them and researching and getting to the bottom of something and being creative with it as an actor and how to express it in a creative fashion. That's my favorite part. And, the actual acting of it. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think there's a certain magic that comes from being creative. ~ Brett Dennen

The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that ego in order to give us a confidence of doing what we're doing. Ego pushes us into the creative world in order to create for something more. I think that a great company of actors, they all have egos, very strong egos, but they're all prepared to share together in order to achieve something even better than that. ~ George Ogilvie

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality ... Experience is the opposite of being creative. ~ Paul Arden

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio. ~ Guy Berryman

Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions
everyone can and should be innovative. ~ Paul McDonald

I've always been doing stuff, being creative. But I got to the point where I starting to feel this longing, craving, itchy feeling - which was the first sign that it was time. I've made a few attempts to make other solo records, but when I've looked back at the body of work I've always felt like I was never quite there. ~ Neneh Cherry

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. ~ Josh Radnor

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition. ~ Juliet Landau

Being creative is not being afraid of being lost. ~ Natasha Tsakos

I just love being on the ocean and being creative on the waves and the feeling you get when you're surfing. All around it's beautiful and fun. ~ Bethany Hamilton

You get inspiration from craziest places. It's just about being creative. You gotta step outside that box, you know what I'm saying, to reach the people. You never know who can feel it; who it can connect to. ~ Nayvadius Cash

Not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure ... of being creative individuals. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I'm in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful. ~ RuPaul

It's all about doing work, being creative and staying true to who you are and having fun. That's what us actors are all about. ~ Ryan Merriman

Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative. ~ Dave Gahan

Never give up. Never stop being creative in finding ways to get exposure. Also, prepared anytime and all the time. You never know who you will run into. ~ Christina Milian

I made a list of the happiest periods in my life, and I realized that none of them involved money. I realized that building stuff and being creative and inventive made me happy. connecting with a friend and talking through the entire night until the sun rose made me happy. Trick-or-treating in middle school with a group of my closest friends made me happy. Pickles made me happy. ~ Tony Hsieh

Being creative is a beautiful thing. Being creative for other people is work. No one wants to work at being creative. ~ A.V. Dalcourt

People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry - so people go on writing rubbish in the name of poetry. You have to find out what you can do and what you cannot do. Everybody cannot do everything. You have to search and find your destiny. You have to grope in the dark, I know. It is not very clear-cut what your destiny is, but that's how life is. And it is good that one has to search for it - in the very search, something grows. ~ Rajneesh

A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing. ~ Kurt Hanks

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult. ~ John Cleese

It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self. ~ D.W. Winnicott