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• The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Creative, Irreverence, Importance

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• In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing alone. I know this is contradicted again and again but I continue to feel it. They don't, of course, write as much, or as fast, but I think it is riper and more satisfying when it does come. One of the difficulties of writing or doing any kind of creative work in America seems to me to be that we put such stress on production and material results. We put a time pressure and a mass pressure on creative work which are meaningless and infantile in that field.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Stress, Writing, Thinking

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• Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Creativity, Creative, Pleasure

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• Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

  Carl Jung

  Fun, Creative, Fantasy

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• Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

  Joichi Ito

  Inspiration, Creativity, Past

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• A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

  Sigmund Freud

  Strong, Memories, Childhood

  Sigmund Freud (1985). “Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works”

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• Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

  Anton Chekhov

  Creative, Criticism, Negative

  Anton Chekhov's letter to his brother A.P. Chekhov, May 10, 1886.

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• Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.

  Bela Bartok

  Self, Creative, Tone

  "The Listening Composer". Book by George Perle, pp. 46-47, 1996.

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• Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Creativity, Break Through, Ideas

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• Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping.

  Merlin Mann

  Creative, Stopping, Each Day

  Twitter post from Jul 26, 2008

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• The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Order, Goal, Confusion

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• Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Success, Effort, Creative

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• Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Men, Creative, Shooting

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• If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train.

  Anthony Storr

  Writing, Men, Creative

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• The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are not the only kings in science. He also is a king who guides the spirit of his contemporaries by knowledge and creative work, by teaching and research in the field of applied science, and who conquers for science provinces which have only been raided by craftsmen.

  Fritz Haber

  Kings, Teaching, Creativity

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• You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

  George Nelson

  Thinking, Creative, Way

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• Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Writing, Silence

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality. I think food can be dangerous to write about because if you don't manage to mediate it somehow, it can be the worst sort of greeting card.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Writing, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.

  John Prebble

  Reality, Men, Creative

  John Prebble (1956). “Disaster at Dundee”

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• Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives. But the art establishment branded him an 'illustrator', a sentimental one at that. Real artists, they said were doing art for art's sake, not for the sake of the bourgeois public. Real artists were putting swiggles, smears or daubs of paint on the canvas. They were doing 'innovative' and 'creative' work. If they were hideous and grotesque; we know that's what life really is!

  Bill Bonner

  Art, Real, Careers

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• Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts.

  Albert Einstein

  Heart, Artist, Track

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• Depression is the flip side of creative inspiration but it can be useful. It's telling you to stop for a little bit. You can become so fully absorbed in the world of creative work that it can lead to some imbalance in your life.

  Shaun Tan

  Art, Inspiration, Creative

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• There are... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or Maxwell are original, individual, "very personal" responses and expressions of exactly the same kind as the creative works of Beethoven or Dostoievski.

  James R Newman

  Art, Stars, Expression

  James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.2012, Рипол Классик

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• [M]any females would, even assuming complete economic equality between the sexes, prefer residing with males or peddling their asses on the street, thereby having most of their time for themselves, to spending many hours of their days doing boring, stultifying, non-creative work for somebody else, functioning as less than animals, as machines, or, at best - if able to get a "good" job - co-managing the shitpile. What will liberate women, therefore, from male control is the total elimination of the money-work system, not the attainment of economic equality with men within it.

  Valerie Solanas

  Jobs, Sex, Animal

  Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.

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• It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work.

  Bjork

  Work Relationships, Creative, Good Work

  Interview with Mathias Augustyniak and Michaal Amzalag, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2009.

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