Best Creative Person Quotes

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.

The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon… They become our legendary heroes.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.

The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.

I’ve got what I want, and I’ve got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person.

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.

I’m an actor. I’m just a creative person. I figure if I wasn’t a good writer, I’d take to renovating homes… not renovating… decorating homes.

Never forget that at the end of the day, as a creative person, your résumé is all you’ve got.

Being a creative person. It’s so much more rewarding when you find things on your own, to live whatever the writers are writing or to display what the director is looking for. You are the thing that everybody uses to get the story out.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

If you’re a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it’s always shifting.

The fact that a consistendy highly creative person is generally irresponsible in the sense that we have used this term is in part predictable from what is known about the freewheeling fantasies of very young children.

I’ve never met a truly creative person who was happy and satisfied with life.

I certainly have more enthusiasm when I’m dealing with marginalized people in Japan, and as a creative person I am part of that marginalization.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

I think it’s a big part of being a creative person.

The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn’t do it any longer.

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can’t shake it off.

I’ve always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

A creative person has to #? create .

Anyone can notice wrong answers. It takes the creative person to notice the wrong questions.

A creative person has to be alive. He can’t borrow from things he’s done in the past. He can’t let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can’t be warped to fit his style.

The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose ‘gift’ is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal essaying for This American Life, but until someone forces you, with a deadline, to really observe your life – unless you’re motivated to do it yourself – there’s so many stories that you miss.

Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. Auto-tuning doesn’t do anything for creativity. Yeah, it makes it easier and you can get home sooner; but it doesn’t make you a more creative person. That’s the disease we have to fight in any creative field: ease of use.

I’ve lost, but I also gained a lot. I’m a creative person, and no one can take that away from me. I’ve been told I committed professional suicide because it was the only escape from the terrible pressures I was facing. What do you think?

To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.

There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.

I hate good taste. It’s the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he’s another creative person who works as hard as I do.