Creative Quotes - Page 18

• The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

  Ben Vereen

  Trying, Stage, Instruments

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• I make about two movies a year outside the 'True Blood' schedule. I work on a great show six months a year, then outside that I get to satisfy whatever creative urges I have. It's a great position, especially for a single guy like me.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Blood, Years, Two

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• One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Creativity, Trouble, Judged

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS's hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom's favorite languages.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Powerful, Thinking, Years

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• If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.

  Kanye West

  Writing, Airports, Two

  "Kanye West responds to Obama criticism" by Ben Beaumont-Thomas, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2013.

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• I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns

  Kanye West

  Gun, Knives, Up Early

  Song: Family Business

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• I've always been creative, I think.

  Emily Watson

  Thinking

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• I mean, I like to be creative because it challenges me to try to be better than I am as a person and I hope that in some way that that makes someone else think and feel something about themselves that then has given them the opportunity to grow.

  Renee O'Connor

  Mean, Thinking, Opportunity

  "Renee O’Connor Exclusive Interview". The Star Scoop Interview, www.thestarscoop.com. March 30, 2005.

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• Jackson [Rathbone] is the most artsy, creative and, I think, the most talented.

  Nikki Reed

  Thinking

  "'Eclipse' star Nikki Reed says Prattz has 'best heart' in new 'Bookazine'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. May 21, 2010.

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• I'm much more creative when I've actually taken care of myself.

  Arianna Huffington

  Taken, Care

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• I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued running around in teddyboy gangs. Today, well... I'd probably be a laborer. I'm glad I'm not, of course. It'll be nice to be part of history... some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids.

  Ringo Starr

  Running, Nice, Book

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• I'm not a fashionista - I adore creative and original people with their own style.

  Gabriella Wilde

  People, Style, Adore

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• If for no other reason, Frank Lloyd Wright would be justly famous for Fallingwater, one of the most extraordinary houses in the world. This biography of a house is also a celebration of the creative minds who envisioned it and provides all the reasons, if any are needed, why Fallingwater should be cherished as a national monument. Franklin Toker has performed an invaluable service.

  Meryle Secrest

  House, Mind, World

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• Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.

  Michelle Rhee

  Jobs, Children, Creativity

  "'You’re Either With Us or You’re With the Status Quo': Privatization Supporters Push Obama to Pick Their Kind of Education Secretary" by Dan Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2009.

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• I know it's a lot of fun for you guys to write a lot of wacky things. Go ahead, if you want to. Get creative. But don't look too much into it.

  Clint Bowyer

  Fun, Writing, Guy

  "NASCAR Probing Possible Race Rigging at Chase for the Sprint Cup" by Kevin Dolak, abcnews.go.com. September 9, 2013.

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• Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and in great works of art; it is innate in us and can be galvanized into activity by the power of creative endeavour in our own day, and in our own country, by our own creative individuals in the arts.

  Lawren Harris

  Country, Art, Real

  "The best of the Group of Seven".

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• There's no excuse for having a mental or creative block in sound. You can just go out and collect things in the real world - they make the sound, not you. It's very restricting to always use a library for sound effects. It's much more interesting and freeing to go out and record new sounds because you never know what you're going to get.

  Gary Rydstrom

  Block, Real, Interesting

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• With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.

  Helen Slater

  Self, Acting, Directors

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• Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.

  Angela Davis

  Girl, Meaningful, Baby

  Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Culture & Politics”, p.26, Vintage

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• Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Expression, Discipline, Healthy

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• You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

  George Nelson

  Thinking, Way, Creative Thinking

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• Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know that in order to progress we must stretch for something just out of reach--if only for a life that will be more compassionate and decent than the cruelty, paranoia, greed, narrow corporatism, or narcissism we mostly indulge in and find such ample justification for. And so we dream.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  Dream, Order, Indulge In

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• Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms...
  Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done.

  Joseph Beuys

  Art, Men, Doe

  Interview in "Artforum" Magazine, November 1969; as quoted in "Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972" by Lucy R. Lippard, University of California Press, (p. 121), 1973.

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• Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Success, Real, Lying

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• The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

  Leon Trotsky

  Art, Inspiration, Unions

  Leon Trotsky (1970). “My life: an attempt at an autobiography”, Pathfinder Pr

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