Creative Life Quotes - Page 3

• I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.

  Twyla Tharp

  Mother, Creativity, Creative

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• All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Imagination, Creative, Important

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• You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative life. You are becoming a neuter machine. You cannot love, even if you knew how to begin to love. Every thought is a devil, a hell-if you could do a lot of things over again, ah, how differently you would do them! You want to go home, back to the womb. You watch the world bang door after door in your face, numbly, bitterly. You have forgotten the secret you knew, once, ah, once, of being joyous, of laughing, of opening doors.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Home, Cutting

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.67, Anchor

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• Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.

  Sara Zarr

  Artist, Hands, Rejection

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• Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Running, Women, Contemplative Life

  Gift from the Sea ch. 2 (1955)

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• The creative life was the only one for a serious man.

  G. H. Hardy

  Life, Science, Men

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• I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.

  George Saunders

  Creative, Vision, Might

  "On 'Tenth of December': an interview with George Saunders". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2013.

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• Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God who is already there [...] You see God where others don't. And then you point him out. So the issue isn't so much taking Jesus to people who don't have him, but going to a place and pointing out to the people the creative, life-giving God who is already present in their midst.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Issues, People

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• My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

  Don Henley

  Struggle, Creative, Balance

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• "A creative life is not just for those fictional few who are "touched by the hand of God." We are all touched by the hand of God."

  Joseph Curiale

  Creativity, Hands, Creative

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• You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Real, Creative

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.85, Anchor

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• You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hysterical circumstances. That's not true. My family, my nuclear family, was actually very close. My mom and dad were great parents and they encouraged a real rich, creative life for me and my brothers. My extended family, like every family, has some darkness, and some violence of some kind, emotional or otherwise, in their past.

  Tracy Letts

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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• In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible.

  Paul Tillich

  Expression, Safety, Creative

  Paul Tillich (1958). “Dynamics of faith”

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• Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Creative, Needs, Lasts

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• I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

  Frank Auerbach

  Thinking, Office, Creative

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• Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve lost the idea that politics begins at home with what happens in families, in neighborhoods, in classrooms, in congregations. We called this democracy into being – and if we want to call this democracy back to its highest values, it’s got to be the us doing that calling. That’s not going to happen if ‘We the People’ don’t know how to talk to one another with civility and hold our differences in a creative, life-giving way.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Hard Work, Home, Ideas

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• Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and in great works of art; it is innate in us and can be galvanized into activity by the power of creative endeavour in our own day, and in our own country, by our own creative individuals in the arts.

  Lawren Harris

  Country, Art, Real

  "The best of the Group of Seven".

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• Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual object, whose appeal is outside the subject's control. Addiction arises when the subject has full control over a pleasure and can ponder it at will. It is primarily a matter of sensory pleasure, and involves a kind of short-circuiting of the pleasure network. Addiction is characterized by a loss of the emotional dynamic that would otherwise govern an outward-directed, cognitively creative life.

  Roger Scruton

  Loss, Emotional, Addiction

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• Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

  Nancy Hale

  Gossip, Creative, Creation

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  You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving Up, Rain, Heart

  Daisaku Ikeda (1975*). “The tide toward the 21st century: addresses”

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• The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

  Carl Jung

  Psychics, Creative, Psychology

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.220, Psychology Press

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• All forms of birth--physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional--bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life spirit birthing all, the seen and the unseen.

  Amy Wright

  Spiritual, Emotional, Giving

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• The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy, and creative lives. This simple but powerful truth is too often forgotten in the pursuit of material and financial wealth.

  Mahbub ul Haq

  Life, Truth, Powerful

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• It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.

  Jennifer Stone

  Country, Children, Artist

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• The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Running, Children, Contemplative Life

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.21, Random House

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