Browsing Topic Best Creative Life Quotes

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65… and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?

You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart.

Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty.

Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or memoir written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools or oceans because your thighs were jiggly or you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen.

Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.

The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls – women’s normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did!

The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps – to figure things out – is a foundation for the child’s creative life later on.

I play piano and that’s my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I’ve got a pretty full creative life. And it’s not because, I’m obsessively creative.

Woman’s normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution,the African knowledge, but different for us, who are blond and blue-eyed from the north?…. There was another way, the way of freedom. There was the paradisal entry into pure, single beingwhich accepted the obligation of the permanent connection with others, and with the other, submits to the yoke and leash of love, but never forfeits its own proud individual singleness, even while it loves and yields.

Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.

Creative life is always based on the values of the self, not on the values of the system.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

I just enjoy the filmmaking side of things. I feel like when you’re an actor, sometimes you’re in other people’s hands and they’re in charge of your creative life. Whereas with my production company, I’m the one that gets to make those choices for how I’m gonna spend my time and what content I’m going to be creating. I definitely learn a lot, especially about acting, by producing and directing and seeing how it all comes together, and seeing the other side of things, appreciating what goes into pre- and post-production, and all those things you don’t see when you’re an actor.

Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

I’m trying to dismantle a stereotype that in order to live any kind of creative life, you have to be in torment and suffering. We’re addicted to this idea because it makes for good bio pics… but I actually think it’s better to live a life where you’re constantly exploring your curiosity and creativity.

A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner-continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you-is a fine art, in and of itself.

Your body’s ability to function as a clean and efficient channel is limited by stiffness, lack of strength, and lack of endurance. Your mind’s ability is limited by the way it thinks about itself, by the way you think about you. The process of yoga is one of undoing the obstructions and limitations in your body and mind that inhibit the free flow of creative life force.

The creative life was the only one for a serious man.

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.

Now I’m able to align my work and creative life with who I am.

Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself – perhaps even too much – in her own writing, the place where her creative life transpires in absolute fullness.

The earth has music for those who listen.