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Creativity Quotes
"I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him."
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"As an author, I want to write what I'm inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the books will ultimately be better if my heart is fully into what I'm writing."
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"Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company."
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"The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work of your hands."
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"If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!"
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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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"When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas."
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"You cannot reconcile creativeness with technical achievement. You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter...having lost the song, we pursue the singer. We learn from the singer the technique of song, but there is no song; and I say the song is essential, the joy of singing is essential. When the joy is there, the technique can be built up from nothing; you will invent your own technique, you won't have to study elocution or style. When you have, you see, and the very seeing of beauty is an art."
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"If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf."
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"Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment."
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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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"I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars."
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"Dissatisfaction with status quo is the psychology behind creative disruptions."
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"Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them."
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"But very quickly they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."
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"Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful."
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"The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked, that's the moment you may be starting to get it right."
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"Life isn't about having, it's about experiencing."
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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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"Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all. To say anything beyond this about the creative process is like pulling all the petals off a flower in order to analyze it, and ending up having destroyed the flower."
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"I said during the course of the campaign I didn't like it and I don't like the idea of having an opponent's picture on your ads and it would be nice to see candidates sign a pledge like that."
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"It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes."
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"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail."
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"The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you."
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"It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea."
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"I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have."
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"Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist."
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"Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other."
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"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."
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"But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process."
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"When I think about my new CD, the word "joy" comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album."
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"So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken."
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"I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery."
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"Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off."
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"Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices."
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"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen."
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"You see, the catch about portrait painting-I've looked into the thing a bit- is that you can't startpainting portraits till people come along and ask you to, andthey won't come and ask you to until you've painted a lot first.This makes it kind of difficult for a chappie."
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"So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs."
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"Open your umbrella of creativity when glaring heat of adversity hits you unaware."
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"Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls."
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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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"In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. If creation had been left up to me, I'm sure I wouldn't have had the imagination or courage to do more than shape a single, reasonably sized atom, smooth as a snowball, and let it go at that."
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"I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine."
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"Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel."
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"Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new."
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"You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea."
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"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly."
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"The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all."
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"The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way."
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