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“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”

“And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Feels Children Given Ability Creative Psychology Birth Female Urges Linked

Author:Zoe Kazan

“Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.”

Inspirational Mind Life Is Energy Force Change Consciousness Creative Our Lives Evidence Filled Urges Ardor

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon that may know more about your destiny than you do.”

Knows May Matter Stories Spirit Born Creativity Destiny Creative Genius Urges Our Destiny Your Destiny

Book:Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

Source: Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

“Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development.”

Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

“In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.”

People Seems Loses Imagination Creative Logic Murder Urges Rome Submit Zest

Book:Of Diamonds and Diplomats

Source: Of Diamonds and Diplomats

“No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.”

Knows Writing Heart Soul Creative Lucky Your Soul Urges Creative Writers

Author:Mel Brooks

“. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.”

Facts Individual Understanding Creative Effects Urges Significance

Author:Beatrice M. Hinkle

“Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses.”

People Pay Creative Failing Genius Ego Ashamed Urges Hubris

Author:Kieron Gillen

“What Sri Chinmoy does is God-given! He has a tremendous, a fantastic creative urge.”

Doe Given Creative Fantastic Urges

Author:Ravi Shankar

“Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every individual has hopes, fears, ambitions, creative urges, that transcend the purposes of his society. Therefore we have a long history of freedom, where people try to extricate themselves from tyranny for the sake of art, for the sake of science, for the sake of religion, for the sake of the conscience of the individual - this freedom is necessary for the individual.”

People Trying Long Art Two Matter Reason Purpose Individual Creative Ambition Conscience Sake Tyranny Urges Having Hope

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“The urge to destroy is a creative urge.”

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Free enterprise has enabled the creative and the acquisitive urges of man to be given expression in a way which benefits all members of society. Let free enterprise fight back now, not for itself, but for all those who believe in freedom.”

Men Way Believe Fighting Given Creative Expression Members Benefits Enterprise Urges Free Enterprise

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations