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“When we transcend we are diving into a field of unbounded creativity. This is real creativity and when we experience that and grow in that, we can more easily find solutions to problems. We can get ideas for whatever it is we're working on. And we will get happier by transcending every day and we will find that we're happier doing almost anything. We'll get more energy to do our work.”

Ideas Real Problem Energy Grows Creativity Fields Solutions Diving Solution To A Problem Transcending

Author:David Lynch

“The process of creativity and life is one of death and rebirth, that's constantly happening over and over again. Whether it's an actual death or just a shift in perspective, that cycle is forever continuing. As an actor and person, that's just something you have to accept.”

Persons Life Is Actors Process Accepting Creativity Forever Perspective Happenings Cycles Continuing Rebirth Death And Rebirth

Author:Seth Gabel

“A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom, fantasies. At the same time, that's where my creativity can be found. If I tried to control it and make it more mature, it wouldn't be good at all. It'd be uninteresting, without any vivacity.”

Ifs Has Beens Problem Found Creativity Fantasy Novel Stupidity Be Good Mature Infantile Childishness Vivacity

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.”

Soul Spiritual Creativity Conversation My Soul Spiritual Experience

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.”

Ifs Knows Creativity Husband Circles My Husband Refined

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.”

Ifs Art Able Can Do Creativity Demon Art And Creativity

Author:Jeannette Walls

“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

“The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.”

Men Mind Creativity Inspire Ordinary Men And Women Extraordinary Details Resolution Discomfort Harmonious Ingenuity Feats Ordinary Man Perplexity Tantalizing

Author:Brian Greene

“I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it is suppressed. Consequently, one is behaving normally and instinctively and healthily when one is creating - literature, art, music, or whatever. An excellent cook is also creative! I am disturbed that a natural human inclination [creative work] should, by some Freudian turn of phrase, be considered compulsive - perhaps even pathological. To me this is a complete misreading of the human enterprise. One should also enjoy one's work, and look forward to it daily.”

“He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In this country we encourage 'creativity' among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow 'too much.' Well, Before the Revolution is too much and that is what is great about it. Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.”

Wells Heart Kind Art Real Country Enough Happens Break Creativity Too Much Talent Revolution Quantity Mediocre Bursting Undisciplined

Author:Pauline Kael

“The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.”

Creativity Creative Pure Demand Evidence Ideology Sociology Sociological

Book:Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008

Source: Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008

“Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything, however deadly humdrum to drug the senses, is preferable to it. Knows the gigantic effort to get started on the boundless, unwieldy, shapeless material; the forest of hesitations; of what to keep and what to throw out; the running-out terror and reluctance in one of finishing.”

Knows Running Effort Creativity Materials Drug Finals Terror Senses Forests Finishing Boundless Hesitation Reluctance Humdrum

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.”

Men Creativity Creating Creating Something

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.”

Thinking Country Dream Artist Dark Creativity Creative Impulse

Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

“Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.”

Way Lasts Creativity Resorts Improvisation

Book:Composing a Life

Source: Composing a Life

“Creation is everything you do. Make something.”

Creativity Creation

Book:Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel

Source: Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel

“[On her collaboration with Adolph Green:] We stare at each other. We meet, whether or not we have a project, just to keep up a continuity of working. There are long periods when nothing happens, and it's just boring and disheartening. But we have a theory that nothing's wasted, even those long days of staring at one another. You sort of have to believe that, don't you? That you had to go through all that to get to the day when something did happen.”

Believe Long Happens Creativity Theory Periods Projects Green Boring Things Happen Staring Collaboration Continuity Long Day Disheartening

Author:Betty Comden

“I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of creation that is the source of us all. When you strike out at someone else's achievement you are attacking your own share of a great gift.”

Art Creativity Share Creation Particular Source Achievement Art Is Flow Instruments Strikes Attacking Great Gifts Wellspring

Author:Morgan Llywelyn

“To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.”

Love Is Creativity Engaged

Author:Lina Wertmuller

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'”

“If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.”

Ifs Spirituality Work Creativity

Author:Julia Cameron

“Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.”

Self Creativity Transcendence Forgetfulness Self Forgetfulness

Book:Myself

Source: Myself

“The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.”

Humans Art Ideas Self Sometimes Human Beings Results Creativity Personality Discipline Mess Impulse Attractive Glorious Nonsense Dedication Primitive Self Discipline Notable Unruly

Author:Margaret Halsey

“Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.”

Energy Creativity Source Irritation

Book:Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

Source: Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

“Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.”

Helping Understanding Work Creativity Balance Add Vices Deeper Dimensions Nurture Personal Life Vice Versa Professional Life Deeper Understanding

Author:Kathy Ireland

“Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.”

Way Moments Joy Next Creativity Live In The Moment

Author:Susan L. Taylor

“there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.”

Two Seems Difficult Creativity Creation Reception

Author:Margaret Wise Brown

“When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.”

Forget Creativity Learning Failure Innovation Failure Is Not An Option

Author:Brené Brown

“You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people have a fantastic ability to copy things and then combine them in new ways. And whether we're talking about genes or memes, recombination is the real heart of creativity.”

People Way Heart Real Ability Talking Creativity Creative Painting Skills Fantastic Branches Copies Genes New Ways Creative People Copying Memes Real Heart

Author:Susan Blackmore

“Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?”

Creativity Vacuums

Book:Lone Dog's Winter Count

Source: Lone Dog's Winter Count

“What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity.”

Creativity Perfection

Book:Then Again

Source: Then Again

“I wonder whether there has been too much emphasis on teaching women to conform, to fit into the system. Certainly that suits conservative organizations in conservative times. But now ... innovation and creativity are necessary.”

Has Beens Wonder Creativity Too Much Teaching Fit Organization Innovation Conservative Suits Conform Emphasis Creativity And Innovation

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but there's nothing substantial underneath.”

Art Sometimes Form Effort Creativity Nice Effects Obstacles Accidents Satisfied Facility Creativeness

Author:Lilli Palmer

“I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.”

Thinking Self Facts Able Creativity Our Lives Approach Creating Mere Active

Author:Jessica Tandy

“The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.”

Goal Creativity Excited

Author:Wil Wheaton

“As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction.”

Long Creativity Creative Reactions

Book:Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons

Source: Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons

“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”

Source: 99 My Life in Pictures

“Creativity is an import-export business.”

Creativity Imports

Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“If the door is locked, try the window.”

Ifs Trying Problem Creativity Doors Window Locked Problem Solving

Book:Lifelines

Source: Lifelines

“I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.”

Creativity Creation Disappear

Author:Sonia Delaunay

“One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.”

“Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.”

World Art Creativity Creating Art World Creating Art

Book:Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou

Source: Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou

“An incipient Mother Man has always inhabited my deeper self; creativity has always been my companion ... I have tried to express myself in a very definite style but by means of all kinds of materials and formats. I wish to discover how my own creativity unfolds under different circumstances... Naples is a dilemma that fatally elicits an oneiric interpretation and I love it and feel grateful because it has nurtured my fantasy.”

Men Feels Kind Mean Different Self Mother Wish My Own Creativity Fantasy Style Materials Circumstances Grateful Deeper All Kinds Companion Interpretation Definite Dilemma Format Naples

Author:Augusto De Luca

“Creativity is not the domain of one single person. Through free-association of thoughts and brainstorming, an accidental suggestion can be the best solution.”

Persons Creativity Solutions Being The Best Association Suggestions Domain Single Person Brainstorming

Author:Joshua Fernandez

“Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come to an end, and this is more observable in the West and not in the East, since in the East there are plenty of untouched and unexplored spaces that could still inspire an artist as sources of creativity.”

Stills Ends Problem Artist Space Creativity Inspire Painting Source West Curiosity East Painter Plenty Unexplored

Author:Guity Novin

“In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.”

Mind Action Process Work Creativity Creative Aspect Creative Process Cardinals

Author:John Daido Loori

“I always imagined I would have a life very different from the one that was imagined for me, but I understood from a very early time that I would have to revolt in order to make that life. Now I am convinced that in any creativity there exists this element of revolt.”

Different Order Creativity Elements Understood Convinced Revolt

Author:Leonor Fini

“Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own.”

Thinking May Creativity Creative Violence Hypocrisy Over You

Book:Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

“Catastrophe and creation are twins.”

Creativity Creation Chaos Twins Catastrophe

Book:Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

Source: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

“Our media, which is like a planetary nervous system, are far more sensitive to breakdowns than to breakthroughs. They filter out our creativity and successes, considering them less newsworthy than violence, war, and dissent. When we read newspapers and watch television news, we feel closer to a death in the social body than to an awakening.”

Source: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

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