“I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsMindMayIdeasCreativityCreativeGratitudeDrugClaimsSellsAddWanderExpertsBe CreativeGreat Idea Author:Hal Elrod
“If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay claim to a monopoly of creative effort... then we must not be surprised if society, as such, ceases to function as a creative force.” IfsHumansForceEffortCreativeFunctionClaimsLaysPatternsIntellectCeaseReasoningMonopoly Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during their courtship. All their instincts of drama come out freshly with their wives. The artist is he in whom this emotionality normally absorbed by sex is so strong that it claims a newer and more exclusive field of deployment. Its first creation is the Artist himself, a new sort of person; the creative man.” PeopleMenFirstsPersonsArtistStrongSexCreativeWifeCreationFieldsPoetDramaThirdsClaimsInstinctRateVitalityExclusiveCourtshipDeployment Author:Wyndham Lewis
“The only way we'll have real pride is when we demand recognition of a culture that isn't just sexual. It's all there--all throughhistory we've been there; but we have to claim it, and identify who was in it, and articulate what's in our minds and hearts and all our creative contributions to this earth. And until we do that, and until we organise ourselves block by neighborhood by city by state into a united visible community that fights back, we're doomed.” WayMindHeartRealStatesEarthCultureFightingCommunityUnitedCitiesCreativePrideDemandClaimsBlockRecognitionContributionVisibleNeighborhoodDoomedHomosexualityHeart And Mind Book:The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me: Two Plays Source: The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me: Two Plays
“It is imperative to bear in mind that human creativity is not a claim or a right on the part of man, but God's claim on and call to man. God awaits man's creative act, which is the response to the creative act of God.” MenMindHumansCreativityCreativeBearsClaimsResponseImperatives Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.” PeopleJobsEnergyHoursCreativeVictorySolitudeClaimsLike MeBe CreativeSpotlightBatteriesRecharging Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.” WritingMindStillsIdeasSelfCommonCreativeHeardDrinkDrugIntellectualGardenClaimsPopsMythAlcoholVarietySubstanceOur TimeDemonDullServingDriversEndeavorUsualSensibilityBullshitAlcoholicsDrugs And AlcoholSelf ServingAbusersEntwinedDruggies Author:Stephen King