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Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create…
— Christopher Pearse Cranch
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Yes, of course [this age] is materialistic, but the only way to counteract it is to create spiritual things. Don't worry yourself about the materialism…
— Robert Frost
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For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he…
— Plato
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Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The…
— William Faulkner
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When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which…
— Arthur Koestler
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The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for…
— Michelangelo
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Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it…
— Georges Braque
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Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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When you're too relaxed it's not good to create.
— David Guetta
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I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.
— Christine Lagarde
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I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found…
— Henri Matisse
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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
— Henri Matisse
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All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.
— Kenneth Tynan
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I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other…
— Robert Graves
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An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality…
— Tom Robbins
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By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.
— Norman McLaren
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The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain plans - is…
— Charles Darwin
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Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result…
— Thomas Sowell
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Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison…
— Thomas Sowell
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