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• The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that is the genius of the painter, poetry of the poet, and a person is a creative artist to the extent that he participates in that genius.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Creative, Doe

  Harold Rosenberg (1983). “The De-Definition of Art”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in commercial studies, I know of no creative artist who employs them. They are, per se, restrictive; their use precludes any chance of adventuring in this interesting field.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Years, Interesting

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• The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.

  Pierre Berton

  Artist, Creative, Together

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• Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.

  Don Watson

  Artist, Hands, Creative

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• I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative artist who often is necessarily at poetic odds with the literal facts.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Attitude, Artist, Odds

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• I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

  Mick Jagger

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

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• The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Artist, Creative, Criticism

  The Innocence of Father Brown "The Blue Cross" (1911)

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• Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Artist, Creative, Obscurity

  "The real cost of free: a response" by Helienne Lindvall, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2010.

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• Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would be trivial. Their toddlers, instead of learning their ABCs on Sesame Street, would learn multivariable calculus on Boolean Boulevard. Our most complex theorems, our deepest philosophies, the cherished works of our most creative artists, would be projects their schoolkids bring home for Mom and Dad to display on the refrigerator door.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mom, Dad, Philosophy

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• A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Inspiring, Artist, Creative

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• There are many kinds of richness, and the man who is rich because of money is the lowest as far as the categories of richness are concerned. Let me say it in this way: the man of wealth is the poorest rich man. Looked at from the side of the poor, he is the richest poor man. Looked at from the side of a creative artist, of a dancer, of a musician, of a scientist, he is the poorest rich man. And as far as the world of ultimate awakening is concerned he cannot even be called rich.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Men, Artist

  Rajneesh Osho (2003). “The World Beyond Time”, p.38, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.

  Galina Ulanova

  Dance, Artist, Achievement

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• Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad to sustain him. But his name is now legion; he competes with the dead as well as the living; and the rewards and honours seem attenuated by division.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Appreciation, Artist, Names

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• This has been a long and tiring battle for 10 years. And I'm glad it's finally resolved. My principles and reputation as a creative artist were involved here-it wasn't just about the royalties. I can now look foward to getting on with my career.

  Irene Cara

  Artist, Careers, Years

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• The ability to play is essential to being a creative artist.

  Dewitt Jones

  Artist, Play, Creative

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• Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.

  Joseph Campbell

  Communication, Artist, Space

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• The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to our creativity, we are opening to God: good, orderly direction. As we pursue our creative fulfillment, all elements of our life move toward harmony. As we strengthen our creativity, we strengthen our connection to the Creator within. Artists love other artists. Our relationship to God is co-creative, artist to artist. It is God's will for us to live in creative abundance.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Moving, Creativity

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• Creative artists have great passion.

  Jack Welch

  Passion, Artist, Creative

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• A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

  E. M. Forster

  Artist, Creative, Criticism

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.

  Scott Weiland

  Artist, Emotional, Creative

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• We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.

  Leontyne Price

  Country, Art, Usa

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• It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't like the light--it reveals too much. But hand in hand with the creative artist, you can lead people into the wisdom that is known to all other animals: simply, that it is the dark we have to fear.

  Edward Albee

  Responsibility, Dark, Artist

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• I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me.

  Clint Eastwood

  Zero, Writing, Artist

  "Clint Eastwood, Cast, and Writers Talk JERSEY BOYS, Adapting the Broadway Musical, Finding the Actors, the Clever Director Cameo, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 24, 2014.

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• To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Artist, Creative, Desire

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• Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.

  Donald Lambert

  Technology, Artist, Smell

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