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Creative act Quote by Alan Cohen

“Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.” quote by Alan Cohen — Download Open image

““Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.””

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When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.

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Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that…

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“You cannot be other than you are. Thank God.”

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Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you.

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Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

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“When you finally give up striving, you will be left with what you have been striving for.”

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“newspaper ads for lost pets and earthquakes that soon follow. Other studies indicate a higher rate of last-minute cancellations for airplane flights that crash.…

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“Quit using your creative power to formulate questions. You can just as easily—more easily— use it to formulate answers.”

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'How can I be more like you?' she asked the guru. 'The best way to be more like me is to be more like…

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Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you.…

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The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.

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What a doctor or healer tells you is a reflection of the beliefs and expectations you hold. Change your beliefs and you change the…

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“As you will see, we do not believe that artists have an obligation to strike up attitudes to the war. Indeed, they are wise and right to ignore it and devote themselves to other subjects. Since artists are politically impotent, they must use this time to develop at deeper emotional levels. Your work, your war work, is to cultivate your…

Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling of connection.…

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Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development.

In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of human action, and basically empowering people through interactivity.…

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“My robust lexicon notwithstanding, I struggle to find the right words to describe just how much I despise, hate, abhor, revile, detest and categorically…

Rachel Held Evans

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The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and…

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“You did not do my homework assignment for me,” he said, grabbing the collage again and looking it over. “I had insomnia,” I said. “I needed a creative activity.” Marlboro Man looked at me, seemingly unsure of whether to kiss me, thank me…or just tickle me some more. I didn’t give him a chance. Instead I picked up the collage…

“But in a few years more perhaps there may be; for, deep within us as the ghost instinct lurks, I seem to see it being gradually atrophied by those two world-wide enemies of the imagination, the wireless and the cinema. To a generation for whom everything which used to nourish the imagination because it had to be won by an…

Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative…

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Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create…

Andrei Tarkovsky

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Educationists and teachers should think how they could play a role in making students spend time doing creative activities.

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“In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?”

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