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“There is only one question to ask a creative artist; did you cheat?”

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Author:Jack Freestone

“Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something completely new under the sun, it clearly has moved beyond the stage of just entertaining lives to that of informing and empowering lives.”

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“Are we to conclude that these chief gods, Zeus and Yahweh, did not wish humankind to have moral consciousness and the arts of civilization? It is a mystery indeed. The most obvious explanation is that the creative artist and poet and saint must fight the actual (as contrasted to the ideal) gods of our society—the god of conformism as well as the gods of apathy, material success, and exploitative power. These are the “idols” of our society that are worshiped by multitudes of people.”

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Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.”

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Author:Scott Weiland

“We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.”

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Author:Leontyne Price

“Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in commercial studies, I know of no creative artist who employs them. They are, per se, restrictive; their use precludes any chance of adventuring in this interesting field.”

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Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”

“The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.”

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Author:Pierre Berton

“Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.”

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Author:Don Watson

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”

“It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don't like the light--it reveals too much. But hand in hand with the creative artist, you can lead people into the wisdom that is known to all other animals: simply, that it is the dark we have to fear.”

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Author:Edward Albee

“I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

“To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.”

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Author:Umberto Boccioni

“Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.”

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Author:Donald Lambert

“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”

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Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.”

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.”

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Book:Letters on Cézanne

Source: Letters on Cézanne

“I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative artist who often is necessarily at poetic odds with the literal facts.”

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Author:W. Eugene Smith

“I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.”

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Author:Fredrika Bremer

“One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing I never before have had. I certainly do love a number of the writers, the painters, the musicians, and the sculptors that I meet here. ... Next to the sunshine, I appreciate it the most of anything in California.”

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Author:Gene Stratton-Porter

“The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart lawyers. They may say a brilliant lawyer. They'll talk about a creative artist. Smart is saved for scientists. It just is. It's not even really applied to medical doctors. It applies to scientists in the lab figuring out what hadn't been figured out before.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.”

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Author:Tom Hanks

“Although in society in general, the idea of an Irish composer of 'classical music', or whatever you want to call it, is still a strange item, generally speaking. Even in the arts, among our fellow creative artists in other disciplines, you still feel slightly out of it.”

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Author:John Kinsella

“Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.”

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Author:Lionel Richie

“Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That's a larger package - a matter of character. Golfing is more than keeping the left arm straight. Every good golfer is a complex engine that runs on ability, ego, determination, discipline, patience, confidence, and other qualities that are self-taught. So it is with writers and all creative artists. If their values are solid their work is likely to be solid.”

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”

“Re-creative artists are investigators.”

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Author:William Boughton

“I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.”

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Author:Mick Jagger

“I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different parades and, then, I got accepted to go to New Orleans Center for Creative Artists ... it's where Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick, Jr. and all those guys went out.”

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Author:Troy Andrews

“Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.”

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Author:F. Gary Gray

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”

“The traditional model for a company like Coca-Cola is to hire one big advertising agency and essentially outsource all of its creativity in that area. But Coca-Cola does not do it that way. It knows how to manage creative people and creative teams and it has been quite adept at building a network that includes the Creative Artists Agency in Hollywood, which is a talent agency.”

“Coming out of graduation, I didn't immediately know what direction I wanted to do so I decided to just stay as an intern until it really kind of dawned on me and I felt more compelled one way or the other. So I gave it a few years and then after two years it was really clear that deep down I missed being a full time creative artist. Ironically, I started getting clients who were all in the entertainment industry and a lot of them were in comedy!”

“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.”

“Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.”

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Author:Edwin Land

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

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Book:Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer

Source: Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

Source: No Man Is an Island

“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.”

“Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.”

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Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“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

“To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.”

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”

Source: Picasso: style and meaning

“The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.”

“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.”

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Book:Picasso

Source: Picasso

“If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”

Source: Conversations with John Steinbeck

“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”

“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”

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Author:Paul Valery