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Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material. — Gail Sheehy
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool. — Og Mandino
What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new… — Georges Braque
The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be… — Charles Darwin
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
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
Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier.… — Thomas Sowell
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over… — Ayn Rand
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it… — Remy de Gourmont
Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers. — Guillaume Apollinaire
Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man;… — Sathya Sai Baba
Concern for one?s own welfare and prosperity should not blind one to one?s social obligations or spiritual destiny?.A society in which the individuals are concerned… — Sathya Sai Baba
Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big… — Robert Henri
Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't… — Robert Henri
Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things. — Ben Shahn
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext,… — Eugene Delacroix
I'm my own writer. My material means I'm entirely separate. — V.S. Naipaul
The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs. — Robert Schumann
We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself... New materials are not necessarily superior. Each material… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I don't know that I necessarily feel more comfortable in the context of smaller films, but I tend to feel more comfortable more often than… — Elijah Wood
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea. — Man Ray
With the practice of deep meditation the mind contacts the Bliss Consciousness of the Spirit and becomes more peaceful, happy, creative and powerful. This state… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living...and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest… — Edward Bok
People of all ages, including children, have been exposed to clever and eye-catching advertising material, .. All that will now change. Tobacco advertising is going… — Frank Dobson
Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in… — Naomi Klein

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