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Creativity Quotes
"To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step."
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"To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion."
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"I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now."
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"The same Source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through."
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"It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life."
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"Painters--and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!"
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"The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame."
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"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."
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"I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms."
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"Magic. I draw with silver and it turns red."
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"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
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"Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the audience is, that's where the means of production are available, and that's where you can make an impact."
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"We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy."
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"After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind."
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"I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions."
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"Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency."
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"We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope."
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"It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil."
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"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."
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"Blue Movie was based on an idea that Stanley Kubrick had. Somebody came by one day with some porn footage."
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"The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot."
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"We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?"
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"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it."
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"Ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in an original and creative way."
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"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."
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"A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs."
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"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power."
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"Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself."
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"Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships."
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"Explore the power of a beautiful wonder."
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"When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left."
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"I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him."
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"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."
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"That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon."
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"It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me."
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"The bottom line is, winter navigation on the Seaway is a bad idea."
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"I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products."
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"The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction."
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"Ideas tell a lot about a person who generated them."
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"An artist's career always begins tomorrow."
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"A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it."
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"Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to."
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"The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil."
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"Art is the objectification of feeling."
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"Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular."
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"Creativity is just connecting things."
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"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme."
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