Creative Act Quotes

61 quotes by 54 authors

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act. — Margaret Mead
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
Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act. — Leo Buscaglia
The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure.… — Albert Einstein
There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God.... There is… — George Wald
The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal
I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get… — Ray Bradbury
The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure. — Saul Bass
Every creative act is open war against The Way It Is. What you are saying when you make something is that the universe is not… — Jerry Holkins
Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this creative act of… — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has… — Christopher Dawson
Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act. — Kenneth Rexroth
Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself. — Neville Goddard
You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point of ecstasy, you… — Neville Goddard
The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to… — Charlie Kaufman
There is a creative act involved by the receiver as well as by the sender and that makes for innovation. Both sides are equally important. — Kirk Varnedoe
The recalling of beautiful things, whether they are your own experiences or the acheivements of others, is a creative act. Simple ideas can be restated… — Robert Grudin
Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act. — Charles Jeffries

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