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“Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.”

Giving Kind Creative Style Genius Taste Notes Folly Faculty Sublime Giving Back

Author:Bill Vaughan

“The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions, and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.”

“Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.”

Source: The English Poets Lessing: Rousseau

“Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.”

Men Children Different Imagination Animal Creative Intellectual Men And Women Weak Intellect Active Former Fancy Latter Faculty Possessed Passive Great Imagination

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.”

Doe Ideas Facts Creative Skills Faculty

Author:Arthur Koestler

“To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.”

Ends Creative Mass Overcoming Slavery Faculty Inertia

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”

Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course