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Creativity Quotes
"Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea."
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"Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist."
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"To create is to live twice."
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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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"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
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"A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas."
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"If you're alive, you're creative."
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"There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combinationthey produce more hues than can ever been seen.There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations ofthem yield more flavours than can ever be tasted."
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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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"I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home."
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"If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf."
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"But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality."
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"The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory."
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"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
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"Self-conciousness is the enemy of all creativity."
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"Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water."
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"A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses, a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings."
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"Not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse."
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"Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor.Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something.But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant."
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"My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person."
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"So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference."
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"An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man."
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"At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet."
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"In order to create an idea... to become an idea, it is a necessity for you to believe that it is your own idea. The idea will grow to define your entire life. And when you die... you don't."
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"I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy."
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"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought."
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"Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either."
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"The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas."
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"At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry's language, entering Henry's world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness."
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"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."
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"The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use."
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"Sometimes i think there must be a sort of pollen of ideas floating in the air, which fertilizes similarly minds here and there which have not had direct contact."
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"It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine."
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"Where beams of imagination play,The memory's soft figures melt away."
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"You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea."
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"So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas."
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"Creativity in and of itself is a type of energy vibration."
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"To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas."
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"I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image."
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"I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later."
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"Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest."
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"Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness."
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"For a long time imagination was all i had. I allowed it to take me to all the places i yearned to be, all the sights i longed to see, make beauty out of all thats been and create art from this suffering."
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"As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself."
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"Dissatisfaction with status quo is the psychology behind creative disruptions."
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