Quotes About Creative

To be successful today, you must touch base with reality. And the only reality that counts is what's already in the prospect's mind. To be creative, to create something that doesn't already exist in the mind, is becoming more and more difficult. If not impossible. The basic approach of positioning is not to create something new and different, but to manipulate what's already up there in the mind, to retie the connections that already exist.

You have to impress him! Be independent and plucky, but often do things that are moronic and out of character!

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

I adore fringe.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.

My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.

I've done a lot of geeky things in my life, but I think the geekiest of all was my first effort to build props and cosplay, when I was about twelve years-old.

Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.

A good scrapbook has texture. It's thick and chunky and doesn't close all the way.

Wars battle cruiser has had sex with Edward Scissorhands, and what it does is breathtaking. The operator drives up to the tree and tells the machine what sort

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

There is no doubt that creative work is itself done under a compulsion often indistinguishable from a purely clinical obsession. In this sense, what we call a creative gift is merely the social license to be obsessed.

Writing is too goddamned hard for me to think about a soul in teh world ... I don't think about a soul, but just try to get those goddamned characters to act right.

The thoughts, words, and emotions that human beings emit from moment to moment are constantly streaming forth from their bodies, forming creative fields that are visible in various colors, forms, and shapes. Some of these creative fields are hazy and cloudy in appearance, and they hover around the person in indeterminate patterns. Others are extremely tenacious, and they twine tightly around the person like a resilient string.

It takes courage to not only accept our limitations but embrace our potential. To deny our creative nature is to choose a life where we are less and thus responsible for less. We see ourselves as created beings, so we choose to survive. When we see ourselves as creative beings, we must instead create.

Discipleship...a process of unleashing the creative potential in each person.

Perceive conflict as positive, creative, and issue driven. Don't allow personal attacks.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.