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“There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.”

Ideas Creativity Waste Clothes Appreciate Seasons Individuality Contradiction Trends Inherent

Author:Lily Cole

“The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.”

Art Form Artist Individual Common Creativity Subjects Position Objects Transformation Males Individuality Producers Denied Representation Bizarre Woman Artist Confounding

Book:Women, Art, and Society

Source: Women, Art, and Society

“If the individual is narrowly concentrated on the goal, to the exclusion of other relevant aspects of the problem situation, he is often unable to achieve a solution. The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.”

Ifs Problem Individual Goal Attention Situation Creativity Creative Seeing Achieve Solutions Aspect Individuality Thinker Relevant Problem Solving Detached Exclusion

Author:Mary Henle

“I regard individuality as the most precious trait we have, because without it there is no creativity, there is no consciousness, there is no rationality. There is nothing that could make me speak more strongly to this point.”

Speak Consciousness Creativity Regard Individuality Traits Rationality

Author:Murray Bookchin

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

Source: Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition

“What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?”

Ideas Creativity Power Genius Innovation Individuality

Book:Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford

Source: Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford