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• The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Passion, Men, Creative

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1978.

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• [At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very much interested in what they were doing, and they left me alone. And I was able to experiment on my own, and I found this very stimulating. It appealed to the creative person in me.

  Stephanie Kwolek

  Science, Men, Discovery

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• There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows who Ripley is. We've made careers and lives out of pretending, making things up, inhabiting other people's stories and lives. That's what I do every day. . . . The story is so audacious and subversive: a central character who behaves badly and isn't apparently caught. That intrigued me no end.

  Anthony Minghella

  Character, Heart, Careers

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• Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had a growing awareness that this characteristic makes possible all the other personality characteristics of the creative person: independence of thought and judgment, honesty, perseverance, curiosity, willingness to take risks and the like.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Perseverance, Honesty, Being In Love

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• A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can't be warped to fit his style.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Character, Past

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• There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.

  Caitlin Thomas

  People, Creative, Doe

  Caitlin Thomas, George Tremlett (1986). “Caitlin: a warring absence”, Harvill Secker

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• You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

  Jason Blum

  Falling In Love, Creative, Complicated

  "Producer Jason Blum on The Lazarus Effect, Paranormal Activity, and loving horror". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2015.

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• One of the great things about being on a show for a long period of time is watching the show evolve. A friend told me a long time ago "It should be easy" and it usually is if you're not distracted with the usual demons any creative person has. Especially with comedy because you find yourself laughing while you work.

  John Swihart

  Long, Laughing, Creative

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• The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.

  Joseph C Zinker

  Profound, Creative, Facts

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• Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)

  Rollo May

  Artist, Creative, Anxiety

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• Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Life, Motivational, Jobs

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2009). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the infinite than the other, and it is the privilege of the balanced mind... and the search for an equilibrium is essential - to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.

  Mark Tobey

  Space, Creative, Serenity

  Mark Tobey, J. François Mathey (1962). “Mark Tobey: Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings and Drawings 1925-1961 Whitechapel Gallery, London 1962”

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• When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future - and a creative person is always in the present.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Ambition, Writing

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• The really creative person is not interested in dominating anybody. He is so utterly rejoicing in life - he wants to create, he wants to participate with God. Creativity is prayer. And whenever you create something, in those moments you are with God, you walk with God, you live in God. The more creative you are the more divine you are. To me, creativity is religion. Art is just the entrance to the temple of religion.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Prayer, Creativity

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• I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The intellectual is a person who talks about the creative process, but often doesn't understand it.

  Mary Pratt

  Creative, Intellectual, Definitions

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• I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

  Helmut Newton

  Photography, Hate, Creative

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• The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.

  May Sarton

  War, Moving, Power

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• I think it's just that as a creative person, in all the different things that I've done or ways that I've found to express myself, I've consistently come up against resistance in certain areas. I think that the world is not comfortable with female sexuality. It's always coming from a male point of view, and a woman is being objectified by a man - and even women are comfortable with that. But when a woman does it, ironically, women are uncomfortable with it. I think a lot of that has to do with conditioning.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Men, Thinking, Views

  "Madonna: The Director's Cut". Interview with Naomi Wolf, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 9, 2011.

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• The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

  Edward Albee

  Art, Creative, Theatre

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.35, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The fact that a consistendy highly creative person is generally irresponsible in the sense that we have used this term is in part predictable from what is known about the freewheeling fantasies of very young children.

  Theodore Levitt

  Creative, Persons, Irresponsible

  "Marketing for business growth".

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• Every really good creative person in advertising has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject he could not easily get interested in...Second, he was an extensive browser in all sorts of fields of information. For it is with the advertising man as with the cow: no browsing, no milk.

  James Webb Young

  Men, Two, Creative

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• You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

  Carl Andre

  Art, People, Creative

  "Artists Talks 1969 - 1977". Book edited by Peggy Gale, 2004.

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• It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Thinking, Self, Voice

  "Mitch Hurwitz on the Creative Process, Casting Jason Bateman, and Loose Seals". Interview with John Sellers, www.vulture.com. October 22, 2013.

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• Like the pioneers of old, a creative person breaks new ground daily.

  Anna Olson

  Creative, Pioneers, Break

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• I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

  Lil Wayne

  Ideas, Creating, Creative

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich and Paris Hilton, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2011.

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