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“Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.”

Knows Way Mean Order Break Creativity Grace

Author:Alan Arkin

“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

“Creativity...involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one's mind-while supervising all this with a critical inner eye.”

World Way Mind Eye Moving Imagination Break Creativity Critical Realms

Author:Oliver Sacks

“Take imagination breaks... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be learned.”

Mind Important Sometimes States Imagination Attention Break Creativity State Of Mind Relaxed

Book:The New Creative Artist

Source: The New Creative Artist

“The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world we catch a glimpse of another world.”

“Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style.”

Break Creativity Style Holes Experts Makers Rebel

Author:Kristine Kathryn Rusch

“Breaks are good because you need breaks to be more creative. It's hard to come up with that creativity and the stamina for that creativity, all the time.”

Needs Hard Break Creativity Creative Come Up Stamina

Author:Anna Silk

“Plugins can be created to unleash your creativity and break down technical barriers between the artist and his ideas.”

Ideas Artist Break Creativity Barriers Breaking Down

Author:Joey Sturgis

“After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.”

Kids Break Creativity Kitchen

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.”

Needs Has Beens Order Imagination Break Creativity Particular Structure Intuition Temporary Sequence Sequence Of Events

Book:Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”