Creative Quote by Nadine Gordimer Download Open image “The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.” — Nadine Gordimer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creative Creative act Creativity Demand Evidence History Ideology Pure Sociological Sociology
The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.” — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“you like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done for their kind.” — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share
Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share
An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think I reached my peak in 2004 when I shot 'Samaria' and '3-Iron'. — Kim Ki-duk Copy Share
When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday life. — Denise Linn Copy Share Image
I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different parades and,… — Troy Andrews Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Money is only used for two things. One, it's to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if… — David Brin Copy Share
I can't let fear kill my creative brain. Fear is the killer. Your bad choices come from fear. And I'm constantly combating fear. I'm one of the most fearful people, which may be why I'm so sensitive about it. I combat fear, constantly. So, when something like this happens, it only makes us stronger, but it reminds you that your… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness. — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
Anytime I get the chance to sing or work with Michael John, it is such an incredibly fertile and incredibly creative and safe and… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
What Sri Chinmoy does is God-given! He has a tremendous, a fantastic creative urge. — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the opinions of the followers who conform without thinking things through, they are often taken at face value. The persistent minority forces the others to process the relevant information… — Anonymous Copy Share