Creator Quotes - Page 33

• See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.

  Francis Quarles

  Lying, Shadow, May

  Francis Quarles (1777). “Emblems”, p.87

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• A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

  Gertrude Stein

  Generations, Appearance, Contemporary

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Picasso”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.

  Jean Cocteau

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

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• In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.

  Andre Malraux

  Artist, Building Up, Groups

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• We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

  Jean Houston

  Artist, Player, Men

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• Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.

  Leonard Cohen

  Unique, Care, Desperation

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.77, Vintage

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• Man..must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent being..And, consequently, as man depends absolutely upon his Maker for everything, it is necessary that he should in all points conform to his Maker's will.

  William Blackstone

  Men, Law, Conformity

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• Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of artistic talent.

  Pope John Paul II

  Beauty, Artist, Talent

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• The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Struggle, Long

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call genius has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Average, Community, Vision

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• To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.

  Louise Erdrich

  Prayer, Men, Stitches

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• The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Special, Preference, Ifs

  "What is Life? The Layman's View of Nature". Book by John B. S. Haldane, 1949.

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• The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally rewards virtuoso performers more highly than it rewards original creators.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Creative, Rewards, Our Society

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.120, Penguin

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• The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.

  Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

  Judging, England, Craftsman

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• Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.

  Mark Rothko

  Intimacy, Creation, Instant

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.59, Yale University Press

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• You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.

  Aaron McGruder

  Jesus, Lying, Government

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• Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.

  Robert Genn

  Curiosity, Curious

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• While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Mean, Magic

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• The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude on the features of nature, that demonstrates to us, that the whole is one family of one parent.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Nature, Science, Hands

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• God Almighty created each and every one of use for a place in the world, and for the least of us to think that we were created only to be what we are and not what we can make ourselves, is to impute an improper motive to the Creator for creating is.

  Marcus Garvey

  Godly, Thinking, Creating

  Marcus Garvey (2006). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. X: Africa for the Africans, 1923–1945”, p.366, Univ of California Press

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• Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational Life, Exercise, Creative

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet unborn will know what it is to experience life on undeveloped, unoccupied land in the same form and character as the Creator fashioned it... It is a great spiritual experience. I never knew a man who took a bedroll into an Idaho mountainside and slept there under a star-studded summer sky who felt self-important that next morning. Unless we preserve some opportunity for future generations to have the same experience, we shall have dishonored our trust.

  Frank Church

  Summer, Spiritual, Morning

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• Being satisfied to drink the dregs from the cup of human progress will not demonstrate our fitness as a people to exist alongside of others, but when of our own initiative we strike out to build industries, governments, and ultimately empires, then and only then will we as a race prove to our creator and to man in general that we are fit to survive and capable of shaping our own destiny.

  Marcus Garvey

  Destiny, Men, Race

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.10, Ravenio Books

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• Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Men, Patterns

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.91, Lulu.com

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• To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!

  Pythagoras

  Essence, Soul, Words Of Wisdom

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