The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
What drives the creative person is that we see it all.
As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.
If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
An essential aspect of self-support is to remind yourself that success is not measurable, but a matter of feeling.
A Seed for Contemplation: Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind. Their solutions are well-rounded, more sensible than those of people who rely solely upon reason as their mainstay. Grati...
The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.
If there is a soul, then it is a mistake to think that it is given to us completely created. It is created right here for a lifetime. Life is nothing but a long, painful process of creation.
The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.
Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.
Creativity is fragile; if you don't nurture it, it can die, leaving you recycling old ideas and pretending they're fresh. It's a sure road to mediocrity.
Creativity is different than cleverness. Clever things are often fun, but usually shallow and short lived. Creativity is deeper.
The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in pursuit of a goal, to sacrifice for the sake of a passion. The teachers demand hard work from their k...
It is in everyone's interest that every person's creative genius be encouraged and allowed to develop and express.
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.
Because of our fear that we are merely excited matter and the consequent grudge that we hold against the universe, we feel lost and alienated, like a refugee far from home in a universe that cares nothing for us.
And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
I find cooking very therapeutic. As a creative person, I relish cooking because it's such a creative process. You can cook anything out of anything.
In 'The Future and Its Enemies,' I argue that individual creativity and enterprise are not only personally satisfying but socially good, producing progress and happiness. For celebrating creativity and happiness, I have been called a fascist by criti...
