John Cleese Quotes

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

I care about being creative and productive.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

I'm a creator at heart.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

Creative instinct is personal.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

Without freedom, there is no creation.