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“Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”

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Author:Pearl S. Buck

“With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.”

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Author:Kazimir Malevich

“Make creativity your religion... because creating is soulful work.”

Creativity Creating Soulful

Author:Eric Maisel

“The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.”

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Author:Adam Leipzig

“What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.”

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Author:Theodore Levitt

“The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.”

Life Is Creativity Creating Oneself Finest

Book:A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney

Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney

“God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.”

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Book:Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

“... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.”

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Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“Negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you're filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let alone feel like creating something. If you are filled with bitter, selfish anger, this occupies the mind and leaves little room for creative ideas.”

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Author:David Lynch

“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.”

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

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Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“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.”

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Author:Jessica Tandy

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

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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

“The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.”

“Where art is concerned, it is the process of creating - exploring, discovering, and experimenting -- that has the greatest value. Through self-expression and creativity, children's skills will develop naturally, and their ability to create will soar.”

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Author:MaryAnn F. Kohl

“Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“We are all creators. Whether or not we create is not up to us. We are human, and creating is what we do. Every interaction, movement, and decision is creativity at work. We are all artists. We all order creation around us into the world that we want to make.”

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Author:Michael Gungor

“If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions - freedom, growth and joy - will come quickly and easily into alignment. See your "career" as one of creating a joyful life experience. You are not a creator of things or a regurgitator of what someone else has created or a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here.”

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Author:Esther Hicks

“If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.”

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Author:Esther Hicks

“If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.”

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Author:Seymour Chwast

“Your very existence is evidence of your innate creativity. In every moment you are co-creating your reality through your thoughts, your intentions, your words and your actions.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“God is constantly creating anew. And God also, invites us to be re-created and join the work of God as co-(re)creators. . . . Imagine the Kingdom of God as the creative process of God reengaging in all that we know and experience. . . . When we employ creativity to make this world better, we participate with God in the recreation of the world.”

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Author:Doug Pagitt

“My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.”

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Author:Talib Kweli

“The Illusionist is the storyteller in so many ways. Symbols become his obsession. It's not simply about creating plot - one must also grapple with theme. Nowadays we have a lot of characters and a lot of action but it's hard to sit still and really meditate on meaning, worldviews, concepts, ideologies even. I make my Illusionist do what I've had to do, often with copious amounts of stumbling and frustration. His real humanity comes from being an artist, I think - his creativity is what makes him a man.”

“Creating things. I love the idea of creation and creativity. Whether it's a character, a short film, a piece of music, a painting, or a bookcase - to watch something go from an idea to a creation is pretty much where it's at for me.”

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Author:Eric Lange

“Creating the future is incredibly exciting. When you talk about ideas and creativity, it's really about having that vision in your mind of how the world could be better, of how it could be a brighter place.”

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Author:Pete Cashmore

“It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.”

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Author:Ian Somerhalder

“The management of creativity is more intimate. By that I mean that it deals with an individual's personal, psychological landscape. It deals with the way you create relationships. It deals with creating an atmosphere and environment that support the creative process. As a result, it is a management skill set that is inherently psychological and that encourages desired outcomes rather than demands those outcomes.”

“These things - the degree of vulnerability, the degree of skill, the degree of the longing to give - are influx all the time, And to lump all that under the word "creativity" assumes something much more static than it is. That's why an artist may be marvelous in her 20s, and be creating automatic crap in her 40s. A writer may be trivial in his 20s, and be writing incredibly in his 50s, because those things are always in flux.”

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Author:Michael Ventura

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

Source: Strength to Love

“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”

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Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.”

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Author:Jeff Koons

“In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.”

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Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.”

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Author:Martina McBride

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

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Book:Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

Source: Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”

“I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.”

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Author:David Walliams

“Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.”

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Author:Kanye West

“I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.”

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Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.”

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Author:Anita Roddick