Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
Art - be it painting, sculpture, music - they are all creations, they are creative acts. I consider a film, with everything that is involved in it, an art.
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
All creative people want to do the unexpected.
The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
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.
I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.
I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.