Creative Quotes

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Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who… — Eric Maisel
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must… — Denis Diderot
We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and… — John Dewey
Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it… — Morris Kline
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. — John Sculley
The starting point for creativity is silence... the creative soil of silence, where can be found the seed-states of all things... — David Spangler
Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy. — Robert H. Schuller
It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within… — Virginia Wade
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.… — John F. Kennedy
Everything that is of authentic value in life has arisen out of meditation. There is no other way. Meditation is the mother of art, music,… — Rajneesh
Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story. — Iris Murdoch
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. — Norman Mailer
You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of… — Walter Lippmann
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. — Bertrand Russell
The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the infinite than the… — Mark Tobey
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It… — Frank Lloyd Wright
My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be. — Robert Mapplethorpe
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit… — Judith Crist
To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the… — James Bovard

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