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“Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy, history, experience--and the more experience you have, the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create.”

Knows Ends Energy Creativity Creative Talent Activity Draws Mathematics Cooking Woods Drawing Disaster Experiments Imaginative Carving Drivel

Author:Julia Child

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

Process Creative Unique Draws Curiosity Conclusion

Author:Robert Genn

“If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.”

Ifs Important Imagination Creative Draws Importance Gaps Viewers Clue Compelled

Book:Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work

Source: Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work

“In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.”

Art Success Actors Waiting Careers Creative Special Buddhism Discipline Draws Tables Actresses Creative Art Waiting Tables

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I talk specifically to the lifestyle and those who can relate to it. And I feel like, where the creativity comes in, is where you draw the parallels that everybody can relate to. That's where it's creative for me. I feel like it works best that way.”

Way Feels Creativity Creative Draws Lifestyle Relate Parallels

Author:Pusha T

“Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.”

Knows Past Creativity Creative Draws Vacuums

Author:Ada Louise Huxtable

“Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.”

Energy Force Leader Creative Draws Employee Introvert Energetic Proactive

Author:Laurie Helgoe

“I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think well draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.”

Thinking Wells Jobs Creative Study Draws Kitchen Holiday Polite Veils Joyous

Author:Fergus Henderson

“I draw creative juices from everywhere. I'm so visually inspired. I would watch old movies a lot to get inspiration for clothes.”

Inspiration Watches Creative Clothes Draws Inspired Juice Old Movie Creative Juices

Author:Cindy Meehl

“I'm always the kind of friend or girlfriend who suggests, when there's some cataclysmic problem in the relationship, I'm like, "Well, maybe we can come up with a creative activity that will help us out." I'm like, "Let's get out the pens! Draw a picture of how much you hate me!"”

Wells Kind Helping Problem Hate Creative Activity Draws Come Up Girlfriend Pens Hate Me You Hate Me Kinds Of Friends

Author:Miranda July

“I honestly don't have many creative outlets. I'm not crafty - although motherhood has forced me to try to be - and I can only draw trees, beaches, and clouds. I'm a so-so cook except for deviled eggs. Writing has always been the one thing I feel that I am pretty good at doing. But it's enough, thank goodness.”

Feels Writing Trying I Can Enough Creative One Thing Tree Goodness Draws Clouds Motherhood Honestly Cooks Beach Eggs Outlets Crafty I Am Pretty Creative Outlets

Author:Sarah Dessen

“We speak for all citizens of the Commonwealth when we say that society can draw great hope for the future because of the example which these young people are giving by their creative and constructive responses to the challenges which confront our communities and dedication to help those most in need.”

People Needs Giving Helping Young Speak Community Challenges Creative Example Citizens Draws Response Dedication Constructive Our Community Commonwealth Hope For The Future Great Hope

Author:William Weld

“Street skating, which is what I grew up with, is completely free of rules. You can do anything. When I see a skater go by, I think, What is this person going to do here? It's the same with people who write, who make music, who draw, who make movies. Creative people tend to have all of those different avenues in them.”

People Thinking Writing Persons Different Can Do Creative Streets Grew Grew Up Draws Avenues Creative People Skating Skater

Author:Jeffrey Deitch

“The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership.... a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures.”