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Creativity Quotes
"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh"
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"Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.."
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"I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example..."
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"The process of creation begins way before one starts writing."
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"We must use time creatively."
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"Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going."
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"Diversity of thought is in demand, for boosting collective creativity and harnessing collective wisdom."
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"Anyway, it's a good thing we're human. We design business spreadsheets, paint programs, and word processing equipment. So that tells you where we're at as a species. What is the search for the next great compelling application but a search for the human identity?"
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"Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today made by past generations was before its appearance a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman."
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"But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing with all aspects of life's mundane matters. "Who are the best musicians for these songs?" "Am I recording in the right studio?" "Is this song in the right key?" Some things never change, even in 400 years.Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, "Are my songs literature?"So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that very question, and, ultimately, for providing such a wonderful answer."
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"From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola."
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"Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows."
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"If life is a song, you must be the superb lyrics to a sweet melody."
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"Any man living in complete luxury and security who chooses to write a play or a novel which causes a flutter and exchange of compliments in Chelsea and Chiswick and a faint thrill in Streatham and Surbiton, is described as "daring," though nobody on earth knows what danger it is that he dares. I speak, of course, of terrestrial dangers; or the only sort of dangers he believes in. To be extravagantly flattered by everybody he considers enlightened, and rather feebly rebuked by everybody he considers dated and dead, does not seem so appalling a peril that a man should be stared at as a heroic warrior and militant martyr because he has had the strength to endure it."
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"A good imitation is the most perfect originality."
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"What doesn't kill me provides writing material."
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"It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is-an intense form of thought."
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"Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer."
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"The writer must write what he has to say not speak it."
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"I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head."
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"Explore your inner creative genius through the medium you love and enjoy the journey!"
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"A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea."
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"Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas."
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"Driving a car provides a person with a rush of dopamine in the brain, which hormonal induced salience spurs modalities of creative and critical thinking regarding philosophical concepts such as truth, logical necessity, possibility, impossibility, chance, and contingency."
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"Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl."
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"Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced.'Pray,' they said, and I laughed,covering myself in the earth's brightnesses,and then stole off gray into the midst of a revel,and prayed like an orphan."
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"Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.That would be you."
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"Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice."
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"Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time."
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"I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going."
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"She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her that she couldn't. Because of this, she moved through the city like some faerie creature. She walked roads no one else could see, and it made her music wild and strange and free."
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"In reading we must become creators."
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"Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek, the Fox would say, "Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that is the whole art and joy of words." A glib saying."
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"Reflection is an underlining theme of Design Thinking."
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"Creative power is mightier than its possessor."
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"Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another."
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"Breaking rules is indeed an important part of creativity. Innovation needs a level of guidance."
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"You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor."
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"We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn't discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists."
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"For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose."
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"My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus."
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"What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be ruthless. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping like sand, through our fingers."
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"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
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"One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas."
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"The idea you implement is more important than the ideas you collect."
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"In ballet, any dancer who asks himself what step comes next must freeze. Any man who takes a sex manual to bed with him invites frigidity. Dancing, sex, writing a novel--all are a living process, quick thought, emotion making yet more quick thought, and so on, cycling round."
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"What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature. We have room for everybody, and we are extraordinarily open to genuine experimentation."
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"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."
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"We write to shed our sorrows and give strength to our spirit."
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