creative quotes

I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.

- Eric Cantona
  In The Guardian, 26 Sep.

This isnot to pretend that reading is a passive act.On the contrary, it is highly creative, or re-creative; itself an art.

- (Arthur) Joyce Lunel Cary
  Mister Johnston, preface.

  The male quality is the creative gift.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
Quoted in C C  Abbott (ed) Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon (1935).

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

- SirAlec (AlexanderArnold Constantine) Issigonis
Recalled on his death. Quoted in The Australian, 5 Oct1988.

You have been the victim of creative suffering.

- Martin LutherJr King
  Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28  Aug, during the March on Washington.

Today musicians listen to see who makes the most money on a style, and then they set to copying him. And they don't copy the ones that are beautiful, creative and good.

- Charles Mingus
  Interview in Enstice and Rubin Jazz Spoken Here (1992).

Every occupation, unless it employs the whole mind and satisfies the human creative instinct, is to some extent absurd; and abouttheadvertising business what I chiefly disliked was not so much the work I did as its general atmosphere of unreality.We dealt in fairy-goldin fugitive dreams and illusions.

- Sir Peter Courtney Quennell
  The Marble Foot: an Autobiography,1905^1938, p.227.

People in this country haven't got the cinema in their bloodthe real creative talent has been drained off into theatre.

-Tony (Cecil Antonio) Richardson
  On Britain. Quoted in the Monthly Film Bulletin, Apr1993.

But reading is not idleness†it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.

- Sir Stephen Harold Spender
  Journal entry, 4 Jan.

Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs Ape.

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
  Vile Bodies, ch.1.