Quotes by Creative During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength. Asger Jorn strengthcreativeartist There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them. Asghar Farhadi creativepeoplethinking I also like different records of mine for creative purposes and metaphorically wise. Ashanti differentcreativewise I wouldn't say I'm personally trying to transition from comedy into drama. I don't look at things like, 'Oh, I need to do a drama now.' I get a lot of material sent to me, and if I feel like something has the creative integrity and the right director and the right whoever involved, the right actors and is a great story, then I do it. Ashton Kutcher creativeintegritydrama Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me. Ashwin Sanghi creativeexpressionwriting I used to work in TV and quit the job because I couldn't do it any more. I quite like taking my time over a film, five years is how long it takes me to work something out. And when you just do quick turnover, turnaround, I'm literally this is driving me mad, I want to find another living. I'll just have to find a creative way to tell the story. Asif Kapadia madcreativelong My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle. Assata Shakur creativestrugglebeautiful My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration. Atom Egoyan creativegivingbelieve June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible. Well o.k. that is the function of us all, as creative artists, to make the truth, as we see it irresistible. Audre Lorde junecreativeartist I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees. Audre Lorde choicescreativetree Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters Audre Lorde creativitydifferencescreative We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created. Audre Lorde nurtureunderstandingcreative When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives. Audre Lorde eroticdancingcreative I like movies that have strong personalities, and Michel Gondry is so creative that his films are always something special to watch. Audrey Tautou strongcreativepersonality The truth about not having everything you need, not being fully equipped or qualified or allowed is that these limits are the nebula of creative genius. When you have total freedom i.e: no limits at all. You stop trying to make the best of things Augusten Burroughs nebulacreativetrying What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original. Austin Kleon good-artcreativeartist The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff. Austin Kleon energycreativestuff If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are. Austin Kleon creativetryinginspirational Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing. Austin Kleon creativepeopleneeds I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative. Austin Mahone producerscreativewriting«89101112131415161718»
