Creative Quotes - Page 40

• Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse.

  Thom Yorke

  Order, Energy, Band

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• We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and experimentation to test the results of the synthesis. The observation of nature must be assiduous, just as reflection must be profound, and experimentation accurate. These three approaches are rarely found together, which explains why creative geniuses are so rare.

  John Dewey

  Science, Reflection, Data

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• Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it provides spiritual values. It puts man in touch with the highest aspirations and lofiest goals. It offers intellectual delight and the exultation of resolving the mysteries of the universe.

  Morris Kline

  Spiritual, Art, Science

  Morris Kline (2013). “Mathematics for the Nonmathematician”, p.551, Courier Corporation

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• Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Importance, Recognise, Creator

  "The Hidden Art of Homemaking: Creative Ideas for Enriching Everyday Life" by Edith Schaeffer, Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1972.

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• When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring writer must read everything he or she can to appreciate the myriad ways words are used and to what effect.

  Julius Lester

  Writing, Appreciate, Way

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• Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Positive, Christian

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• It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

  Virginia Wade

  Kings, Thinking, People

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• Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

  Jean Houston

  Real, Creativity, Doors

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• Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

  Jerry Harrison

  Thinking, Negative, Pressure

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• What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

  Austin Kleon

  Artist, Good Art, Originals

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.7, Workman Publishing

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• Colour is a creative element, not a trimming.

  Piet Zwart

  Elements, Trimming, Colour

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• Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.

  Abigail Washburn

  Ideas, Together, Pieces

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• My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

  Tony Bennett

  Goal, Truth And Beauty, Persons

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• To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved...that day, you die as a writer.

  Dwight V. Swain

  Feelings, Excited, Mute

  Dwight V. Swain (2012). “Techniques of the Selling Writer”, p.13, University of Oklahoma Press

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• There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.

  Margaret Mead

  Zest, World, Force

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• You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember. No matter what has happened up to this point, you have the right and the capacity to be happy. You are an innately creative being, capable of writing a love story worth living.

  David Simon

  Writing, Plot Lines, Acting

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• Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters. It doesn’t have to be a secret sea plane and an historic sports moment. But to have a great life, you need great memories. Grab any intriguing offer. Say yes to a challenge, and to the unknown. Be creative in adding drama and scope to your own life. Work at it, like a job. Money from effort comes and goes. But effort from imagination and following adventure creates stories that you keep forever. And anyone can do it.

  Rob Lowe

  Sports, Jobs, Memories

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• In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

  Michael Graves

  America, Liberty, Privilege

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• A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.

  Bob Thaves

  Law, Fool, Taxes

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• You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

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• In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

  Max Beckmann

  Strong, Principles, Behinds

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• Reason is the true creative power, for it produces itself as Infinite Self-consciousness, and its ongoing creation is...world history. As the only power that exists, Spirit can therefore be determined by nothing other than itself, that is, its essence is Freedom...Freedom is the infinite power of Spirit...Freedom, the only End of Spirit, is also the only End of History, and history is nothing other than Spirit's becoming *conscious* of its Freedom, or the becoming of Real, Free, Infinite Self-consciousness.

  Bruno Bauer

  Real, Self, Essence

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• Ashton Ford will come as something of a surprise to those of you who have been with me over the years. This is not the same type of fiction that established my success as a novelist; Ford is not a gutbuster and he is not trying to save the world from anything but its own confusion. There are no grenade launchers or rockets to solve his problems and he is more of a lover than a fighter. I have grown, I hope, both as a person and as a writer, and I needed another vehicle to carry the creative quest. Ashton Ford is that vehicle.

  Don Pendleton

  Years, Confusion, Trying

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• The Creative Revolution is over. Everybody is justholding onto their jobs and no one is ever going to say toa client... ‘Buy this or I’ll resign your account.’ You don’tdo it anymore. It’s now, the majority of the time... ‘How do you like it? When can I change it for you?’

  Jerry Della Femina

  Jobs, Majority, Revolution

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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

  Stopping, Each Day, Ass

  Twitter post from Jul 26, 2008

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