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“I was worried that I, the artist Morimura, would have conflicts with the participating artists and develop a strenuous relationship with them. But the actual experience was completely the opposite. The artists accepted my requests rather positively, because it came from a fellow artist. I strongly feel that the fact that my being an artist avoided the usual curator vs artist tension, and led to creating a positive atmosphere as well as developing a solidarity amongst artists and building a community for artists.”

“[Wilson] has this strange inability to censor himself, and he'll say these things that are sometimes quite caustic or end up creating some kind of violent reaction, you know. But, you know, I admire that.”

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Author:Woody Harrelson

“Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity. I wrote a big proposal to Avon cosmetics on how creating a global series of women's races could lead to getting women in the Olympic marathon. People thought I was smoking poppy at the time. The longest event in the Olympic Games was 800m.”

“The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the victims of the civil war, that market was actually destroyed and at the end of the war a new Nigeria has struggled to come into being and I believe that what is probably going to replace the market literature might be the video, which they have taken to in a big way, creating dramas. So that may be the next thing way we will see coming out of the local basic level in our society.”

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Author:Chinua Achebe

“If we start creating our own maps, our own world, our own vision, then there's no way for the cultural tyrants to program us. And, that's why they're pushing so hard to get more outrageous.”

Ifs World Way Hard Vision Creating Program Pushing Maps Tyrants Outrageous

Author:Alex Jones

“I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing and directing reality, rather than creating scenarios.”

Ifs Reality Fiction Talent Creating Scenarios Non Fiction

Author:Robert Greene

“The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There's whoever's writing it and whoever's drawing it. And then there's whoever's reading it because they are creating the movement. They are creating the illusion of time passing.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“I feel the calmest when I'm drawing or when I'm creating images. I love connecting the mind with the hand and producing something - that is very comforting and centering for me.”

Feels Mind Hands Creating Drawing Connecting Comforting Centering

Author:Jerry Pinkney

“Drawing creates its own kind of private space. Coupled with certain interests that I want to speak to in my art, it's really kind of a safe haven for me. Creating art is not only a comfort zone, but also a way of speaking to my passions.”

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Author:Jerry Pinkney

“The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about plantation life and slavery, I try to find clients that will give me an opportunity to work on projects that will visualize those experiences of the enslaved African and people of color. I get to learn about my roots, and my artwork allows the reader into that world by creating images that are accessible.”

People Ifs World Want Giving Trying Art Opportunity Process Subjects Color Reader Projects Creating Roots Give Me Slavery Clients Artwork Plantations Creating Art Illustrating

Author:Jerry Pinkney

“The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we are creating jobs in this country. But not just jobs, good paying jobs. Ones that can support a family.”

Important Country Jobs Can Do Support Creating Important Things Creating Jobs

Author:Barack Obama

“Home is essentially a set of values you carry around with you and, like a turtle or a snail or whatever, home has to be something that is part of you and can be equally a part of you wherever you are. I think that not having a home is a good inducement to creating a metaphysical home and to being able to see it in more invisible ways.”

Thinking Way Home Able Values Creating Invisible Metaphysical Turtles Wherever You Are Snail

Author:Pico Iyer

“When we talk about economic growth, we're not talking about bringing a bunch of companies in that can make a bunch of bucks and hope they spend 'em in our city. We're talking about creating jobs, creating new companies and then we move from there to talk about cooperatives which can become some of those jobs, some of the solidarity economy where we can begin to band together people so they'll understand that a job is not a single individual affair but a collective affair.”

“I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.”

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Author:Vik Muniz

“I enjoy nothing more than creating new series and watching them grow in front of me month by month. It's a muscle I spent many years developing and it feels good to be using it again.”

Feels Years Grows Enjoy Fronts Months Creating Series Feel Good Developing Muscles

Author:Rick Remender

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

Source: Strength to Love

“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”

Humans Hands Lying Business Creativity Sad Diversity Creating Salvation Being Different Human Hands Being Weird Shared Humanity Social Activism

Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.”

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Author:Jeff Koons

“I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.”

Trying Kind Use Painting Creating Surface Print Printer

Author:Jeff Koons

“You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.”

Feels Heart Song Broken Creating Intimacy Broken Heart Introducing

Author:Diana Krall

“You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.”

World Different Able Jobs Actors Acting Audience Creating Convince Different Worlds

Author:Christian Bale

“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.”

People Trying Looks Has Beens Problem Enjoy Circumstances Taste Creating Illusion Who You Are Odd Precious Life How Precious Life Is

Author:Anne Lamott

“The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as their excellent version of 'Memphis' proves.”

Play Faces Prove Creating Stones Versions Excellent Sixty Rolling Competent Rolling Stones Groove Memphis

Author:Jon Landau

“Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.”

Ideas Joy Artist Fun Wealth Careers Destiny Type Findings Creating

Author:Queen Latifah

“It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.”

Men Said Humor Poet Creating Performances Blind Ridiculous Driving Reasonable Sense Of Humor Craving Posture Sinister

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.”

Heart Process Creative My Heart Creating Creative Process Closest Creating Something

Author:Amy Lee

“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”

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Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.”

Motivational Certain Successful Creating Momentum

Author:Annie Lennox

“For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.”

Stories Enjoy Periods Creating Rehearsal

Author:Damian Lewis

“When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.”

Self Faces Moving Life Is Challenges Lessons Creating Best Work Doing Your Best Best Self

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.”

Inspirational Hard Play Creativity Easier Creating Plant Grass Blades Oaks Hard Things Oak Tree Creative Thought

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.”

Reality Process Leadership Leader Development Creating Mass

Author:Rosa Luxemburg

“Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.”

World Way Mean Creating Illusion Busy Separation Weekend Free Time

Author:Ian MacKaye

“Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.”

World Needs Mean Together Next Company Benefits Creating Army Embrace Decades Corporations Working Together Teamwork Collaboration Partnership Cooperating

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Two Ideas Faces Choices Brain Special Events Creating Solutions Organization Institutions Sparks Dedicated New Ideas Special Events

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?”

Thinking Social Creating Remains Commit Brands Social Change Pillars Private Sector Casualties Outdated

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.”

Thinking Trying I Can Character Stories Can Do Challenges Roles Watches Tvs Creating Fascinating Creating Characters

Author:Tatiana Maslany

“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.”

Ifs Ideas Depression Creating Innovation Originals Betrayed Original Ideas Ideas And Creativity Ideas And Innovation Power Of Ideas Being Original Being Betrayed

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.”

People Care Party Creativity Events Creating Cooking Planning Memorable Meals

Author:Martina McBride

“Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?”

Knows Want Real Moments Creating Creator Real Questions

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created.”

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.”

Remember Creating Jokes Realised Being Funny

Author:Paul Merton

“Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.”

Giving Years Made Rights Subjects Products Industry Giving Up Creating Fierce

Author:Alan Moore

“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”

Life Inspirational Art Real Poetry Design Creating Garden Poetry Is Poetic Imaginary Toads

Author:Marianne Moore

“Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.”

Character Stage Creating

Author:Roger Moore

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

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Book:Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

Source: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

“I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.”

People Way Long Stills Interesting Creating Fascinated Eighty Interesting Ways

Author:Steven Morrissey

“I like creating images.”

Author:Kate Moss

“As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me.”

Mind Self Feelings Father Parent Produce Brother Creating My Brother Warning Dislike Elevation

Author:George Muller