Quotes About Creative

Ridley creates a very immersive world, so when you walk up to a Ridley Scott film set you're in Ridley Scott's imagination, and it's a really comfortable, cool place to be.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it.

A protest against reality, either conscious or unconscious, active or passive, optimistic or pessimistic, always forms part of a really creative piece of work.

Art is the essence of life in creative form. If you want to compete, run a damn race. If you truly want to create essence, you need to leave competition out of it. 2014

Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet.

When you listen deeply, and allow a connection to emerge, the resulting conversations can be profound, creative and extremely useful.

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

A company that is efficiently built around remote work doesn't even have to have a set schedule. This is especially important when it comes to creative work. If you can't get into the zone, there's rarely much that can force you into it. When face time isn't a requirement, the best strategy is often to take some time away and get back to work when your brain is firing on all cylinders.

If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the yield of our own creative future, they become goals, intentions and processes very much in reach rather than the shadows of childlike, superstitious mythology.

When you add a goal to the enjoyment of what you do, the energy-field or vibrational frequency changes. A certain degree of what we might call structural tension is now added to enjoyment, and so it turns into enthusiasm. At the height of creative activity fueled by enthusiasm, there will be enormous intensity and energy behind what you do. You will feel like an arrow that is moving toward the target—and enjoying the journey.

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.

The human mind is generative, creative, proactive, and reflective -- not just reactive.

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind

P?rea s?-l considere tot mai mult pe Sergio un soi de pierde-var? din categoria trist? È™i inert?, un intelectual adic?, iar de data asta Sergio nu putea spune c? nu are dreptate, era într-adev?r un intelectual din cea mai rea spe??, credea, un om a c?rui inteligen?? nu avea nimic creativ, nici util, ci servea doar ca s?-l îmboln?veasc? È™i s?-l paralizeze ca o otrav? rafinat?.

Great poets are all philosophers too profound to systematize their ideas. Inside every dark visionary is a being of insidious reason waiting patiently for his host to die. From the cleft of the creative arises the categorical flower.

Do not forget the most important fact that not heredity and not environment are determining factors. - Both are giving only the frame and the influences which are answered by the individual in regard to his styled creative power.

I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.

The Google model of targeted advertising is appealing because it claims to cut down on waste. We need to ask how that efficiency can be brought to creative process.

For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.