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Creativity Quotes
"Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured."
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"The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global."
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"We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas."
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"The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best."
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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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"It was an odd experience, this bringing to life of pages born of my pen and forgotten. From time to time they interested me -- they surprised me as much as if someone else had written them; yet I recognized the vocabulary, the shape of the sentences, the drive, the elliptical forms, the mannerisms. These pages were soaked through and through with my self -- there was a sickening intimacy about it, like the smell of a bedroom in which one has been shut up too long."
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"I have rubbed, knocked and brushed up against a thousand windows, trying to get an image."
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"The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process."
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"As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life."
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"Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think."
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"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."
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"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."
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"Inspiration ends when reading ends."
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"If you would create something,you must be something."
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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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"Imagination is the core of attraction."
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"I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there."
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"SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net."
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"We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted to do. When we got to a point where it seemed impossible, we just kept doing it. After 18 years, we have a lot of it done."
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"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false."
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"I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."
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"You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else."
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"The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one."
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"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
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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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"Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause."
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"New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!"
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"As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing."
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"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one."
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"The beauty about creating soundtracks is that each time I'm living in a magical world, a world of the logic of sense away from the crazy world we're living in where materialism in charge of our destiny."
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"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders."
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"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
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"Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything."
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"Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important."
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"I create my music for fun not because I have to, that is why it sounds magical and unique."
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"When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce."
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"I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think."
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"I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going."
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"I stopped writing in the obvious. I wrote how I saw it and if they don't understand it, that's fine."
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"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."
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"The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first."
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"Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea . . . creativity and stupid are interchangeable . . . because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going against the grain, and leaning into risk and fear."
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"Wait. Take your foot off the pedal. Instead, let your creativity drive you."
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"For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable."
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