Quotes About Creative

You are in your youth walking down a long road that will branch and branch again, and your life is full of choices with huge and unpredictable consequences, and you rarely get to come back to choose the other route. You are making something, a life, a self, and it is an intensely creative task as well as one at which it is more than possible to fail, a little, a lot, miserably, fatally.

The term 'politics of prefiguration' has long been used to describe the idea that if you embody what you aspire to, you have already succeeded. That is to say, if your activism is already democratic, peaceful, creative, then in one small corner of the world these things have triumphed. Activism, in this model, is not only a toolbox to change things but a home in which to take up residence and live according to your beliefs, even if it's a temporary and local place...

We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.

Where your thinking is, there is your experience; As a man thinks, so is he; That which I feared is come upon me; Think and grow rich: Creative visualization for fun and profit; How to find friends by being who you are.

Well, some day i'm going to get in with that wild artistic group. It's the only thing that makes this town different. The 'wild artistic group,' as you put it, has an average age of fifty-seven, and most of us have heart disease and bladder trouble...

It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become creative scar tissue and block your growth.

Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process, a loving recognition of all the creativity around us.

responsible for their triumphs as well as their failures. She also told him, as if it were a well-known law of nature, like gravity or centripetal force, that creative thinking blossomed in what others might see as idleness.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

Respect is not creative ... Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore — and then you get something out of her.

Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

What first attracted me to doing Swiss Army Man was just how mental it was - how insane and wonderful and original the script was.

I made a tin man costume with tin foil and furnace parts because I thought it would help me be more heartless.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

You don't know Jay-Z's scedule. He's a renaissance man.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.

My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.

I love to experiment with fashion. A lot of my inspiration comes from my mom. She is fearless with fashion! I love colors and anything daring.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

What is a screenplay? 120 pages of begging for money and attention.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition.