Creative People Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Dana Spiotta

  Husband, People, Creative

  "In 'Arabia,' Writing Life As You Wish You'd Lived It". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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• Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

  Criss Jami

  People, Creative, Mediocrity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami

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• Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way—then because they also have depression, I think they’re more in touch with human suffering.

  Nick Flynn

  Creativity, Thinking, Average

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.

  Duncan Long

  Mistake, Spring, Creativity

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• Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.

  Patton Oswalt

  People, Creative, Woods

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• Ask creative people where they get their ideas, and they will roll their eyes. It's the most common question, but it's also a bad one because the answer is inevitably disappointing. From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.

  Gene Weingarten

  Inspiration, Creativity, Eye

  Gene Weingarten (2010). “The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.

  Stephen King

  Mean, People, Creative

  Stephen King (2016). “The Tommyknockers”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times, they're critical and faultfinding. And finally they're doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals.

  Roger von Oech

  Wall, People, Goal

  Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

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• Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a moral responsibility in terms of smoking, not to show smoking in movies.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Responsibility, People, Smoking

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Mean, Artist, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn't make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

  Bill Gates

  Stars, Creativity, Past

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• It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.

  Robert Genn

  Writing, Unique, Thinking

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• We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find the scientific method never discovers anything. Observant, creative people make discoveries. But the scientific method protects us from cranks like me.

  Allan Savory

  Discovery, People, Creative

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• The corporate system is fully psychopathic, and any creative people who enter into business with any of these organizations come up against a lifetime of issues. You just deal with it as you go along. It'll keep on happening until people reorganize the organizations.

  Kevin Shields

  Organization, Issues, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.

  Gary Wright

  Life, Home, Unique

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• It's the coolest thing - showing young, bright, and creative people that compassion and a compassionate life is the richest way to live. When you live that life, you create progress, productivity, and innovation.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Compassion, People, Creative

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things that stand out the most are the paradoxes of the creative self ... Imaginative people have messier minds.

  Scott Barry Kaufman

  Self, People, Creative

  "18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently" by Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me

  Duncan Sheik

  Creativity, People, Creative

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• Creative people are 50% ego and 50% insecurity.

  Lee Clow

  People, Creative, Ego

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• But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.

  John Frusciante

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Interview with Evan C Chase, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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• All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.

  Paloma Faith

  Moving, Insecure, People

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• I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.

  Lou Reed

  Art, People, Creative

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• Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Technology, People, Creative

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2002.

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• The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Running, People, Creative

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• The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology.

  Lewis Thomas

  Song, Hands, People

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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