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“A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.”

Feels Art Desire Creativity Events Poet Worship Impulse Awe Works Of Art Transformed Passive Rite Provoked

Author:W. H. Auden

“You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.”

Way Can Do Creativity Creative Obstacles Impulse Smooth

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

“God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“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.”

“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

“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.”

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Author:Margaret Halsey

“Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.' The human mind, after all, has the creative impulse built into its operating system, hard-wired into its most essential programming code. At any given moment, the brain is automatically forming new associations, continually connecting an everyday x to an unexpected y.”

Source: Proust Was a Neuroscientist

“If you want to be creative, don't try to do something new. Doing something new means NOT doing what's been done before, and that's a negative impulse. Negative impulses are frustrating. They're the opposite of creativity, and they never yield good ideas.”

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Author:Eva Zeisel

“Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams.”

Dream Desire Force Imagination Creativity Conflict Driving Impulse Fuel Resolve Our Dreams Daydreaming Driving Force Unfulfilled Desires

Author:Sigmund Freud

“The church is like any large corporation in one respect. In its early days, either the early church or the early years of Microsoft, you see all kinds of creativity, innovation, invention, people have nothing to lose, they're trying to find what works. Then you wake up and you're a vast enterprise, and it's very hard, when you have all kinds of buildings and structures and hierarchy and so on, to hang on to these very creative impulses that helped you get your great success in the first place. As a church we're going to have to figure a way out from under this.”

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Author:Chris Lowney

“The joy in what I do is mostly creativity. I think creativity is an ecstatic impulse that we all have. And there's nothing more joyful than having a moment of creative insight and actually creating, or rather manifesting or incarnating your creative insight into actual, physical reality.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“The struggle is part of the creative process, and it's very enjoyable to have the struggle. Without the struggle, there would be no joy in creativity. The one thing that is not enjoyable is if you get attached to the outcome. And if you're constantly looking for approval and you are not immune to criticism, then you are in trouble, and you will continue to be struggling and never find the creative impulse.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.”

Results Creativity Creative Our Lives Fields Habit Died Impulse

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.”

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Book:Creative America

Source: Creative America

“Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.”

Mean America Inspiring Creativity Creative Busy Destroyed Impulse Remedy

Author:Joyce Carol Oates