Creative Quotes

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The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and… — Albert Einstein
Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law. — D. H. Lawrence
Suppose there is something which a person cannot understand. He happens to notice the similarity of this something to some other thing which he understands… — Hideki Yukawa
The creative life [is] the only one for a serious man. — G. H. Hardy
A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects… — John Steinbeck
If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To throw the atoms… — Lucretius
It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can escape from their… — Freeman Dyson
The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of… — Cornell Woolrich
I'm a creative guy, artistically with graphics. — Tim Allen
One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that… — Jack Palance
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does… — Upton Sinclair
I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life. — Ornette Coleman
Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence. — Stefan Zweig
For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom. — Yukio Mishima
There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life… — Caitlin Thomas
Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the… — Robert Gordis
My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me. — Lucille Kallen
Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood… — Zygmunt Bauman
There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of… — Pete McCarthy
People think if you're a movie star, you're the boss. But first of all, I'm not a movie star, I'm in a very different place.… — Rutger Hauer

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