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Creativity Quotes
"What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe."
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"Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation."
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"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers."
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"But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is."
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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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"An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man."
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"In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public."
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"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."
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"Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution."
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"I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious."
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"I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed."
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"What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up."
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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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"Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate."
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"The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher."
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"It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals."
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"It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them."
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"Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together."
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"A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd."
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"The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'"
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"It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily."
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"To create is to live twice."
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"How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all."
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"You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost."
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"The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea."
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"I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight."
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"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
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"Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique."
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"If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, 'When you're ready'."
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"We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas."
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"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
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"Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky."
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"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting."
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"The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here."
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"The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use."
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"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing."
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"Wait. Take your foot off the pedal. Instead, let your creativity drive you."
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"Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old, that will give you some idea of how old he is."
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"It is a bird's imagination, not its wings, that determines how high it can fly."
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"Coraline tried drawing the mist. After ten minutes of drawing she still had a white sheet of paper with "MIST" written on it one corner in slightly wiggly letters. She grunted and passed it to her mother."Mm. Very modern, dear," said Coraline's mother."
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"When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas."
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"How does one say something new and not retell?"
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"What you think and how you think, influences what you ink and how you ink."
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"At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go on and make other things with a glad and determined heart."
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"Screenwriting is like poker; in the end, you have to go all in."
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"Art is the medium through which you express the inexpressible, convey the unconveyable, transporting the audience in different realms of existence erasing their mental identities. Any effort by the artist to make an personal identity is detrimental in an artistic sense. Be Wiser, leave no residue, dissolve in ART!"
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"You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art."
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"Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write."
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