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“The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.”

People Facts Creativity Creative Creation Intelligent Surface Visible Genesis

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“It's easier to be creative if you've got other people to play with.”

People Ifs Play Creative Easier Be Creative

Author:John Cleese

“The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.”

People Choices Creative Solutions Tolerate Discomfort Creative People Pondering Indecision

Author:John Cleese

“While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough.”

May Mistake Creative Be Creative Breakthrough Drivel

Author:John Cleese

“If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.”

Ifs Trying Moments Action Creative Return Intelligent Strategy Alternatives Considering Bad Times Receptive Creativity And Innovation Timeliness Takeoff

Author:John Cleese

“Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.”

People May Facts Used Term Creative Divine Anxiety Madness Paid Greek Insecurity Sensitivity Distinguished Creative People High Prices

Author:Rollo May

“Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.”

Creative Students Materials Discipline Function Guides Guidance Creative Work

Author:Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.”

Needs Force Consciousness Creative Pathways

Author:Julia Cameron

“We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.”

Spiritual Certain Universe Energy Creative Achieve Exercise Alignment Creative Energy Energy Of The Universe

Book:The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.”

People Thinking Mind Creative Purses Intimidating Creative People

Author:Lady Gaga

“If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become the very vehicle of freedom, of discovering the creative surprises that liberate mind-at-play.”

Ifs Mind Wells May Play Form Used Results Creative Stupid Surprise Vehicle Discovering Conventional Pedantic

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally rewards virtuoso performers more highly than it rewards original creators.”

Creative Comfortable Originals Rewards Creator Technique Our Society Performers Flash Professionalism Creative Power Dexterity Virtuoso

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“With the practice of deep meditation the mind contacts the Bliss Consciousness of the Spirit and becomes more peaceful, happy, creative and powerful. This state of mind enriches all values of material life.”

Mind States Spirit Values Powerful Consciousness Practice Creative Meditation Materials Contact Peaceful Bliss State Of Mind Deep Meditation

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Hard labour to succeed in the world? Hard labour no, no, human constitution, human physiology, human intelligence is made of infinite creative potential of Natural Law and therefore no-one has to work hard for success.”

World Humans Made Hard Law Natural Creative Hard Work Succeed Constitution Infinite Labour Natural Law Human Intelligence Physiology

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart.”

Ifs Want Heart Two Home Together Creative Journey Dimensions Polarity Journey Together

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.”

Creative Position Satisfaction Rhetoric Pennies Creative Freedom

Author:Joe Eszterhas

“Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.”

People Way Happens Hate Creative Attraction Rainbow Hate Me Unicorn They Hate Me

Author:Lady Gaga

“John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or censure. He opens up the creative goo and all of the actor vessel stuff. He knows how to do it. It's just incredible.”

Knows Matter Actors Stuff Know How Creative Incredibles No Fear Vessel Censure

Author:Patti LuPone

“The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.”

Ideas Freedom Creative Groups Ultimate Experiments New Ideas Ultimate Freedom

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.”

States Universe Nature Change Principles Creative Driving Steady Ongoing Creativeness

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.”

Humans Passion Individual Imagination Creative Rights Impossible Independent Human Rights Tyranny Pretence Individual Freedom

Author:Ai Weiwei

“You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.”

Way Can Do Creativity Creative Obstacles Impulse Smooth

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

“For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.”

Children Stills Self Whole Seems Mother Individual Results Creative Evolution Birth Mass Conscious Consequence Blind Impulse Rebirth Self Conscious Creative Work

Book:journal

Source: journal

“If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you can start to understand them. And finally, you can see inside their minds and DNA.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Mind Understanding Creative Appreciate And Love Irrational Unpredictable Dna Creative People

Author:Bernard Arnault

“During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.”

States Lasts Artist Creative Strength Overcoming Reserves Homeless

Author:Asger Jorn

“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.”

Knows Years Has Beens Use Artist Chance Interesting Creative Study Creation Fields Colour Schemes Creative Art Creative Artists Adventuring

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.”

Process Creative Photography Photographer Celebration Creative Process

Author:Jerry Uelsmann

“The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood 15 or so years ago.”

Years Culture Creative Happened Television Shots Years Ago Hollywood Financial Presenter

Author:Terry Wogan

“For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.”

Artist Process Challenges Half Creative Photography Mediums Print Creative Process Subjective Practise Methodology Pallets

Author:David Travis

“That's the fun part of it all. You get creative when you're in Little League. You're creative when you're in middle school. You're creative in high school and college. And then when you get to the league, this position, the more mobile quarterbacks, we have a tendency to want to become traditional and nervous and panicky in how we want to call plays and put guys in position to make plays.”

Want Littles Play School Guy Fun Creativity Creative Middle Position College High School Traditional Tendencies Nervous League Mobile Quarterback Middle School Little League

Author:Kordell Stewart

“If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.”

Ifs Want Feels Process Creative Feel Good Impulse Code New Life Creative Work

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.”

Fear Dark Creative Danger Computer Studios Block Locked Dwelling Creative Block

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.”

Water Creative Talent Resources Flow Including Obstacles Encounters Creative Work Work Flow

Author:Eric Maisel

“While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless isn't a terrific idea in terms of your overall happiness and health.”

Feels May Ideas Feelings Term Natural Creative Health Separation Nevertheless Alienation Terrific Creative Work

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.”

Numbers Creative Projects Deserve Infinite Rewards

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“This is a natural evolution, building a complete bath ensemble program and the Joseph Abboud bath brand within the Creative Bath family of licensed programs.”

Natural Creative Building Evolution Program Brands Baths Ensemble

Author:Bob Weiss

“Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.”

Writing Believe Creative Lucky Accidents Pushing Elephants Skates Ramp

Author:Leonard Bishop

“It doesn't matter if they're famous or not - I just want to meet other creative people who can maybe bring something different to the studio than what I have. I think that's the most important thing for me.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Important Different Matter Creative Important Things Studios Creative People

Author:Tiesto

“The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative.”

Happiness Life Is Creative Consistently Life Happiness

Author:Peter Koestenbaum

“It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.”

Creativity Creative Certainty Uncertainty

Book:The Book of Questions: The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book

Source: The Book of Questions: The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book

“Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.”

Mean Creative Excellence Limitation Destructive Rejects Creative Freedom

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions.”

Process Creative Unique Draws Curiosity Conclusion

Author:Robert Genn

“Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.”

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Author:Robert Genn

“It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.”

People Thinking Way Writing I Can Helping Joy Wish Process Understanding Creative Unique New Ways Be Creative Creative People My Wish

Author:Robert Genn

“Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.”

Mind Art Decision Creative Conscious Art Is Finals Abstract Unconscious Conscious Mind Abstract Art

Author:Lawren Harris

“Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us toward a higher world; a world in which all ideas, thoughts, and forms are pure and beautiful and completely clear, the world Plato held to be perfect and eternal. All works that have in them an element of joy are records of this adventure.”

People World Art Ideas Beautiful Form Joy Spirit Perfect Results Creative Clear Records Adventure Higher Pure Elements Eternal Art Is Plato Joyous Creative Spirit

Author:Lawren Harris

“Visible nature is but a distorted reflection of a more perfect world and the creative individual viewing her is inspired to perceive within and behind her many garments, that which is timeless and entirely beautiful.”

World Beautiful Individual Nature Perfect Behinds Creative Reflection Inspired Perceive Visible Timeless Garments A Perfect World

Author:Lawren Harris

“I don't suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don't think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They have a vague idea - a beckoning, an inkling of some truth - it is only in the process that it comes to any clarity.”

Thinking Knows Ideas Process Creative Clarity Creative Process Vague Beckoning Vague Ideas

Author:Lawren Harris

“So to keep a fantasy, do not peer too closely at the world; fuzzy vision suits you best. Your creative power, turned away, is aimed inside to juggle fantasies, to solve the problems of a child's intrigue.”

World Children Problem Vision Fantasy Creative Solve Suits Peers Intrigue Creative Power Fuzzy Suits You

Author:Arthur J. Deikman

“Creative action plays with the unknown. But as the child fears the dark... the adult child will be fearful too, faced with the dark world of the unknown mind, with vast concepts looking enormous just beyond the front yard.”

World Mind Children Play Action Fear Dark Creative Fronts Concepts Adults Enormous Fearful Yards Dark World Adult Children

Author:Arthur J. Deikman

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