Creative Quotes

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Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost… — Twyla Tharp
After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for example, like to… — Twyla Tharp
The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort. — Henri Matisse
They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all. — Edward de Bono
Man is not intended to see through the eyes of another, hear through another's ears nor comprehend with another's brain. Each human creature has individual… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy,… — Julia Child
Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill… — Lewis Grizzard
In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and… — Arnold Bennett
The creative process requires chaos before form emerges. — Marilyn Ferguson
Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs us of our skills, our judgment, and blinds us to creative solutions. — Harvey Mackay
Above, far above the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature. Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of the creative power… — Vilfredo Pareto
The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times,… — Roger von Oech
Right mindfulness does not simply mean being aware; it is like creating a work of art. You can therefore trust what you are doing; you… — Chogyam Trungpa
Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point. — Chogyam Trungpa
People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward… — Chogyam Trungpa
Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A… — Ludwig von Mises
You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions. — Marcel Duchamp
Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity. — Joyce Carol Oates
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life,… — Ingmar Bergman

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