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... a bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort ... More
... all children have creative power. More
... each of them is inhabited by a bland demon, as the German metaphysicians used to call that... More
... everybody who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four... More
... like a woman made frigid, I had to learn response, to trust this possibility for fruition... More
... no writing is a waste of time,—no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the... More
... we have come to think of all idleness as hoggish, not as creative and radiant. More
... woman is frequently praised as the more “creative” sex. She does not need to make poems,... More
A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,
Our... More
A perfect personality ... is only possible in a state of society where man is free to choose the... More
A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying,... More
A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty... More
A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely... More
All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work... More
All pains the immortal spirit must endure,
All weakness that impairs, all griefs that... More
All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were... More
All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself—civilization, in a word—are the... More
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of... More
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty—as a way of enjoying elitism... More
An original is a creation
motivated by desire.
Any reproduction of an original
is... More
And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and... More
And so she knelt in front of a bookcase, in driving need of the right arrangement of words; for... More
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working... More
Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art... More
As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of... More
As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely... More
As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys—and... More
Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the... More
But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man... More
But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there... More
But the creative person is subject to a different, higher law than mere national law. Whoever has... More
Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted... More
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most... More
Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now... More
Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few. More
Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes... More
Creativity is not a substitute for competence. More
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is. More
Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development... More
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which... More
Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern, which he turns full on what facts and thoughts... More
Emma Bovary is me. More
Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of... More
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. More
Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really... More
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits... More
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it. More
Exchange is creation. More
Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. More
For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in... More
For the prevision is allied
Unto the thing so signified;
Or say, the foresight that... More
From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know... More
Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being... More
He did not see that there is no such thing as a standard for the creative spirit; that no one... More
He remembered the dissolute adventures in which his senses, his nervous system and his mind had... More
I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has... More
I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you... More
I am not offended that these creatures (that’s the word)
Of my imagination seem to hold me... More
I don’t know but a book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf—at any... More
I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is... More
I have asked a lot of my emotions—one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up... More
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I... More
I have never been able to accept the two great laws of humanity—that you’re always being... More
I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that... More
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s;
I will not reason and compare: my... More
I remember
a dream two nights ago: the voice,
‘the artist must
create himself or be... More
I seem, in most of these verses, to have but placed a harp in a window, and noted the contrasted... More
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I... More
I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or... More
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights:... More
If I had not come to America, where I felt free to formulate tentatively insights at which I had... More
If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will... More
In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live. More
Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely... More
It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly M to be no longer yourself but to move in... More
It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this... More
It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live... More
It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man’s work... More
It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction... More
It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a... More
It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases,... More
It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels... More
It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely... More
It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded... More
It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to... More
It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make... More
Love and work are viewed and experienced as totally separate activities motivated by separate... More
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. More
Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning... More
Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by... More
No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime. More
No common-place is ever effectually got rid of, except by essentially emptying one’s self of it... More
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get... More
Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit... More
Observing him in these moods, I often dwelt meditatively upon the old philosophy of the Bi-Part... More
Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive. More
Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings... More
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in... More
Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating! More
Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as... More

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