The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration. — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities. — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
“In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?” — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
To voice something you're feeling and put observations into words with another person who is totally present is a creative act embodying… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
At the height of creative activity fueled by enthusiasm, there will be enormous intensity and energy behind what you do. You will… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Reading a good comic is a creative act. Watching a film is often a more passive experience, and since I'm interested in… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created… — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“What is it that is whirling the mind? Imagination, creative activity. Stop creation and you know the truth. All power of creation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
Learn as much as you can about performing. Live theater, improv classes, music, stand up comedy, dance, anything to make yourself confident… — Rob Paulsen Copy Share Image
Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge,… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“Discover a goal.Surrender yourself to that goal, act towards it drawing your inspiration from that goal.Thereby you will get a new column… — Acharyas Copy Share Image
Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
So, you know, when I think of survival as a creative act, it's not trying to plaster over the isolation or to,… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
“The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Powerful forces led me to the Hammers and then to the neighbors and suggested that the qualities I witnessed in their lives… — Archie Lieberman Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a magic wand that works two ways. When you set it in action and seek to create something, it does… — Jyoti Arora Copy Share Image
“Christians must revive a centuries-old view of humankind as made in the image of God, the eternal Craftsman, and of work as… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
When I was in Wuhan, I went to the art school, which was one of the most important art schools in China,… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
“Once we allow the logical reconstruction of something (a being, a theodicy, and the like) to have internal self contradiction, it obviously… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information — this is what… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The effects of what are now called psychedelic (mind–manifesting) chemicals differ from those of alcohol as laughter differs from rage or delight… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage… — Henri Lefebvre Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act. — Charles Eames Copy Share Image
Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me. — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation! — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
