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Creativity Quotes
"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting."
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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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"Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity."
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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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"I spent days and nights staring at the blank page, searching the deepest corners of my mind: who have I been, what have I seen, what did I learn? I thought about all the nights I've spent outside, all the times I laid down to cry and how I took a deep breath every morning and decided to simply go on. Because what else is there to do? Decide that this is it? I quit, I'm done? Oh if I could find words to justify those feelings I've carried. I could write the thickest of books with explosions of emotions from a young girl's lost heart. I could make you see, make you hear, make you feel, at least a tiny fragment of what's out there."
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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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"If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all."
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"When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas."
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"Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity."
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"How does one say something new and not retell?"
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"We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas."
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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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"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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"Creativity in and of itself is a type of energy vibration."
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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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"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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"Talent is divinely gifted, and never to be cheaply exchanged for the sake of trinkets and fame."
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"Do not be cursed by documented findings and so-called facts, invention itself is not yet an antique for the museum. Not every voice has the right to sponsor your beliefs and words."
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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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"My writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on..."
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"Dissatisfaction with status quo is the psychology behind creative disruptions."
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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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"No good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one..."
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"Not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse."
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"Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine."
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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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"It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning."
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"Wealth flows from energy and ideas."
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"If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on."
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"Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously."
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"My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted."
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"I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things."
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"Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas."
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"It's about a young girl who will stop at nothing to be the valedictorian of her class. It's very dark and very wicked, but it's got a great part for a kid, and a great part for an older woman."
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"No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense."
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"I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself."
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"The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book."
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