Top Creative Quotes
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
Montgomery Clift
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
John Cleese
I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative.
Ann Wilson
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
Dennis Potter
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
Willa Cather 
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The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.
Ron Kind 
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There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
John Baldacci 
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Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.
Michael Polanyi 
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I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.
Andy Hertzfeld 
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There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
Pam Grier 
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
Ralph A. Cram 
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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Friedrich Nietzsche 
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They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.
Teena Marie 
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand 
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