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Creativity Quotes
"Trying to force creativity is never good."
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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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"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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"Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal."
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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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"Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop, suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head."
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"In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work."
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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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"Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write."
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"An artist is one who has mastered the art of dissolving himself so completely that only his work remains!"
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"To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered."
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"An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation."
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"Ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in an original and creative way."
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"When we write, we discover answers, though the key is not in the discovery but in the timing of the implementation."
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"If you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou,then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you,do something else."
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"Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy."
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"He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle."
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"...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them."
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"The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original."
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"Write from the heart always."
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"A little conflict can create a lot of creativity."
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"Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses."
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"You owe it to yourself to constantly experience the priceless feeling that comes with turning a great idea into reality."
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"Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn't work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they're done they're done."
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"Dissatisfaction with status quo is the psychology behind creative disruptions."
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"Everyone writes with hand, but very few can write with heart."
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"All great talents are never found in rich exquisite locales with perfect setting that enhance their creative works, but on the contrary are found in the most obnoxious circumstances yet are unaffected by them and create masterpieces at the most unpredictable situations, just like a lotus flower blossoming in a muddy pond!"
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"I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job."
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"One must act in painting as in life, directly."
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"Inspiration ends when reading ends."
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"Not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse."
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"Life wants you to thrive in the domain of your own unique creative vision for your yourself."
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"Life isn't about having, it's about experiencing."
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"My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl."
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