Creative Quotes - Page 18

• In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.

  Marcel Marceau

  Art, Hands, Grace

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• Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.

  Hugh Magnus MacLeod of MacLeod

  Art, Book, Creativity

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• It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.

  Maria Jeritza

  Character, Artist, Joy

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• The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

  Aberjhani

  Humanity, Victory, Balance

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.102, Lulu.com

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• I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

  Abel Ferrara

  Baseball, Guitar, Cameras

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 27, 2002.

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• But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Art, Marketing, Rooms

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• Love is always creative, fear always destructive.

  Emmet Fox

  Fear, Creativity, Love Is

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• Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Junk, Done

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.28, Souvenir Press

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• Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

  Karen Horney

  Creativity, Men, Feelings

  Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

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• Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.

  Gloria Steinem

  Knowing, Inspire, Daring

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• I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Exercise, Self

  "Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional". mentalfloss.com. June 15, 2012.

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• I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I’ve been pot boiling.

  Stephen Shore

  Hot, Pot, Streaks

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• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  Lana Del Rey

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Being creative is not so much the desire  to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

  Anni Albers

  Art, Creativity, Listening

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• On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Lying, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Government, Office, Trying

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• The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Ideas, Tangible

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 39), 1986.

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• How can you worry about pleasing people [critics] and what they're going to think? How can you do anything creative if the whole thing is motivated by trying to please somebody else? To me, the whole idea of what I thought art, or music, or anything creative was about pleasing yourself and hoping that whatever you're creating will reach someone else who'll see it on that level. To worry about someone picking it apart and discussing it element for element, and trying to knock you down or weaken it in any way doesn't amount to anything but a waste of paper.

  Elliot Easton

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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• Know that there's enough room for everyone to be passionate, creative & successful. In fact, there's more than room for everyone; there is a need for everyone.

  Marianne Williamson

  Success, Passion, Needs

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• Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with an idea-it only starts with an idea.

  John D. Arnold

  Ideas, Imagination, Doe

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• Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.

  Abraham Maslow

  Hands, People, Matter

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• I try to live right. I always try to adhere to what I think is right, and that, to me, is the most important part of creative work.

  Sam Maloof

  Thinking, Important, Trying

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• There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Discovery, Sublime

  Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

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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

  Persons, Irresponsible, Consistently

  "Marketing for business growth".

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• Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

  Clay Shirky

  Creativity, Innovation, Trying

  "Here Comes Clay Shirky". Interview with Parul Sehgal, www.publishersweekly.com. June 21, 2010.

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