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• Creative people who have made their seemingly most self-indulgent artistic whims into a career.

  Steve Purcell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Creative, Career

• So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

  Rowan D. Williams

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Creative, World, Order

• 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

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  Tags in Level, Fleeting, Creative, Camera, Brief, Box, Instant, Lasts, Your, Act, Enough, Prey, Trap, Moment, Lightning, Just, Little, Long

• What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Topics in Art, Soul

  Tags in Creative, Real, Man

• The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

  Carl Rogers

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Novelty, Hence, Essence, Creative, Standard, Very, Which, Judge

• It’s got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.

  Ron Livingston

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  Tags in Creative, Idea

• Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that’s true in any creative field.

  Maya Lin

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  Tags in Creative, Good, Thinking, Sometimes

• That’s why, when Alias came along, I knew I’d be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.

  Victor Garber

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  Tags in Creative, Knew

• I do like to be creative and I’m very lucky that I’ve been given different areas in which I’m able to do that – whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I’m also still into music and recording.

  Richard O'Brien

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  Tags in Creative, Different, Television, Like

• The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

  Raymond Chandler

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  Tags in Meet, Creative, Artist

• It’s not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It’s more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

  Robert Motherwell

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  Tags in Creative, Critical, Like

• It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

  W. Somerset Maugham

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  Tags in Creative, Together

• And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that’s like basically good.

  Lester Bangs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Artistic, Creative, Recreate, Original

• My hand is the extension of the thinking process – the creative process.

  Tadao Ando

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Creative

• Acting isn’t really a creative profession. It’s an interpretative one.

  Paul Leonard Newman

  Tags in Creative, Profession

• There’s something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it’s more of a creative process.

  Neve Campbell

  Tags in Crew, Creative

• Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

  Steve Jobs

  Tags in Creative

• Writing is truly a creative art – putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

  William Shatner

  Tags in Creative, Plot, Rife

• The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Tags in Creative, Impulses

• I’m a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I’m a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America – which I find such a positive place – well, I took to it like a duck to water.

  Victoria Beckham

  Topics in Positive

  Tags in Creative, I Believe In