Creative Quotes - Page 24

• The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

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• There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Individuality, Doe

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• People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Artist, People, Way

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• I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.

  Anna Paquin

  Art, Thinking, Careers

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• That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Office, Parent, Degrees

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.9, World Wisdom, Inc

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• One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Life, Letting Go, Firsts

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• It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  T Shirt, Shirts, Destruction

  "This much I know" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• A cautious creative is an oxymoron.

  George Lois

  Oxymoron, Cautious

  "Author Q&A with George Lois: Damn Good Advice". Interview with Steve Kroeter, www.designersandbooks.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. When I write an advertisement, I don’t want you to tell me that you find it ‘creative.’ I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product.

  David Ogilvy

  Art, Writing, Interesting

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• Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Magic, Different, Stories

  "A completely real, not at all plagiarized interview with plagiarist Jonah Lehrer". MobyLives interview, www.mhpbooks.com. November 14, 2014.

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• The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in pursuit of a goal, to sacrifice for the sake of a passion. The teachers demand hard work from their kids because they know, from personal experience, that creative success requires nothing less.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Teacher, Art, Hard Work

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• It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Hurt, Phoenix

  "A hunger for books" by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

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• You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Real, Able

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.85, Anchor

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• We have to have genius creative thoughts precisely four times a year and on exact dates. I actually write them on my calendar. I write, 'Friday, Nov. 8. Three o'clock. Have a genius creative idea.'

  Tom Ford

  Friday, Writing, Years

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• Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. Auto-tuning doesn’t do anything for creativity. Yeah, it makes it easier and you can get home sooner; but it doesn’t make you a more creative person. That’s the disease we have to fight in any creative field: ease of use.

  Jack White

  Home, Creativity, Fighting

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• Deadlines and things make you creative.

  Jack White

  Deadline

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• When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Imagination, Limits, Mediums

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• Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.

  Henri Lefebvre

  Overcoming, New Horizons, Transition

  "Everyday Life in the Modern World".

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• What I see is trying to make sure that everybody thinks you have more than what you actually have. What’s the point if you actually don’t have it? If you don’t have it, then you don’t have it. Have what you have. Enjoy that . . . The craft is everything. Don’t be afraid of not being the wealthiest person in the room. Be the smartest person in the room. Be the slickest person in the room. Be the most creative person in the room. Be the most entertaining person in the room. Just be in the room.

  Jill Scott

  Thinking, Trying, Crafts

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• It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Exercise, Trying

  The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1993.

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• It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile the consensus of St. Petersburg readers is that this novel is intolerably long-winded and therefore terribly boring.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Long, Depth, Firsts

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• In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

  Twyla Tharp

  Skills, Luck, Endeavor

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Exercise, Skills

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• Confidence is a trait that has to be earned honestly and refreshed constantly; you have to work as hard to protect your skills as you did to develop them. . . The one thing that creative souls around the world have in common is that they all have to practice to maintain their skills.  Art is a vast democracy of habit.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Practice, Skills

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• In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion is this: Make it easy on yourself. Find a working environment where the prospect of wrestling with your muse doesn't scare you, doesn't shut you down. It should make you want to be there, and once you find it, stick with it. To get the creative habit, you need a working environment that's habit-forming. All preferred working states, no matter how eccentric, have one thing in common: When you enter into them, they compel you to get started.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Wrestling, Scare

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