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“The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.”
“The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.”
Source: The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded
“The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.”
“The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.”
Source: Research Conference on the Identification of Creative Scientific Talent
“The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.”
“The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things.”
“The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.”
Source: The book of Stillmeadow
“The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtapositionas making a spark requires two things struck together.”
“The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment.”
“The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.”
“The creative life was the only one for a serious man.”
“The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.”
“The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.”
Source: Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
“The creative mind can turn chaos into a master piece and call it Art.”
“The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion.”
“the creative mind is as delicately balanced as the needle trembling in a compass; the presence of antagonistic metal deflects it instantly.”
“The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.”
Source: Right-wing women: the politics of domesticated females
“The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.”
“The creative mind plays with the object it loves.”
Source: Psychological Types
“The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”
“The creative mind seeks chance and accident while everyone else seeks control and order. Rod Judkins ‘Change Your Mind”
Source: Change Your Mind: 57 Ways to Unlock Your Creative Self
“The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.”
“The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively.”
“The creative part, with the writing of it and the vision, and finding the voice of a show and the characters, is much harder to teach somebody. It's like music. You can either play it or you can't. If you can't play music and you really struggle and work hard, you can learn, but you have to have some inner gift to take it to the next level.”
“The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task at hand covers both bases, but not often.”
“The creative person finds himself in a state of turmoil, restlessness, emptiness, and unbearable frustration unless he expresses his inner life in some creative way.”
“The creative person has to dissolve all should and should nots. He needs freedom and space, vast space; he needs the whole sky and all the stars. Only then can his innermost spontaneity start growing.”
Source: Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within
“The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.”
“The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.”
Source: Solitude a Return to the Self
“The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.”
“The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.”
“The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.”
“The creative person should have no other biography than his works.”
“The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.”
“The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.”
Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel
“The creative personality is always one that looks on the world as fit for change and on himself as an instrument for change. Otherwise, what are you creating for? If the world is perfectly all right the way it is, you have no place in it. The creative personality thinks of the world as a canvas for change and of himself as a divine agent of change.”
Source: The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
“The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.”
“The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.”
“The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.”
Source: The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work
“The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.”
“The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.”
“The creative process doesn't begin with humor. It begins with subject matter.”
“The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea and I can pretty much execute it. As old as I am now and as long as I've been doing it, I can pretty much get it done in a week. While a filmmaker has a great idea that should be out tomorrow, but he has to go through this process of getting financing, then selling it, then casting. I've always been in awe of filmmakers and their patience in realizing their vision because I could never do that.”
“The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of social change. I do think we have to acknowledge that we are a very capitalistic and consumptive nation, and that talk about conservation or issues of sustainability is never going to be popular with the dominant culture because it means checks and balances on an economy that is reserved for the dollar, rather than an economy that honors and respects spiritual resources and the right of all life to participate on the planet, not just our species.”
“The creative process is a brave one. The word courage comes from the Latin and French words for heart, so keep coming back to loving kindness toward yourself as you write. Keep showing up with compassion for yourself, and you’ll get to where you’re wanting to go.”
Source: WRITE! Your Guide to Revealing the Writer Within
“The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.”
“The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.”
“The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.”
“The creative process is a love story that never ends. The ideas are like suitors competing for your attention. You may have relationships, with multiple ideas, at once. You may devote yourself completely to one idea, for a awhile, but the affairs will never end. There will always be more ideas to romance and more concepts to develop. And all for that wonderful moment when you get to gaze at the complete creation and hold perfection in your arms, for one blissful moment... before your inner-critic starts tearing it to shreds.”