Quotes of: Creative-act Keyword

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

Oscar Niemeyer

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

William Shatner

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

Jane Badler

I grew up in what you might call a relentlessly creative household. We were given art supplies, music supplies... Our mother knew enough to get us started and then stand back and not meddle. My parents never said to us, 'Don't you think you'll need s...

Julia Cameron

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

Laura Riding

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

Baz Luhrmann

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

I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

Ellen Wong

With acting, you are a small part of the creative process, and sometimes it is hard to feel like you are making an impact.

John Cho

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

Atom Egoyan

I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can ex...

James Franco

It took me years to realize that I could do all kinds of drastic acts like quitting jobs, relationships, towns (or all of the above), but what showed up at the next job, relationship, & town was still ME.

The Artist in the Office: How to Creatively Survive and Thrive Seven Days a Week

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

Michael Polanyi

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

Tom Shadyac

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

Common

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Norman Mailer

I loved plays, I loved films, but I had no desire to act until I had just put out my album 'Like Water for Chocolate.' Creatively, I felt like I'd hit a ceiling, and I needed something else to express myself, and I just decided to take acting classes...

Common

When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficult to manage. I'd always written, but began to do so with real commitment now that it was my only creative outlet. I used all my acting techniques to ...

Jenny Downham

We're never alone. As soon as we step outside the campfire glow, our Muse lights on our shoulder like a butterfly. The act of courage calls for infallibly that deeper part of ourselves that supports and sustains us.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we ...

Walking on Water

Basic Principles: 1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy. 2. There is an underlying, in-dwelling creative force infusing all of life -- including ourselves. 3. When we open ourselves to our creativity, we ope...

Julia Cameron