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  • Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

    Self   Movement   Spirit  
  • I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

    Teacher   Years   Two  
  • Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

  • Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done.

  • Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

    Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”
  • If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities

  • I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

  • The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

    Art   Children   Fun  
    "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1973.
  • 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.

  • Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

    "The Corporate Board", Vol. 13, published by Vanguard Publications, p. 30, 1992.
  • Chinese movies are not just about making Chinese local movies. It's about the Chinese money, the Chinese creativeness participating in a global movie. The problem is not the government not supporting this, they of course support this big time. The problem is whether other people are capable of doing the same thing I'm doing.

    Source: deadline.com
  • The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to show new ways to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting.

  • The geniuses have created, but they were less: the saints have been, but they created little...A twofold tragedy of creativeness reveals the truth that there has not yet been in our world a religious epoch of creativity.

  • It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

    Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.247, Northwestern University Press
  • Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.

    William F. Buckley Jr. (2010). “Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus”, p.41, Encounter Books
  • Creativity is your best makeup skill, don't be afraid to experiment.

  • Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation

    Art   Mistake   Creation  
  • To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

  • Creativeness is liberation from slavery. Man is free when he finds himself in a state of creative activity. Creativeness leads to ecstasy of the moment. The products of creativeness are within time, but the creative act itself lies outside time.

    Lying   Men   Creative  
  • Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them in the moment of speaking; in having the temerity to proclaim what one believes to be true without fear of the consequences. If one were to await the possession of the absolute truth, one must be either a fool or a mute. If the creative impulse were muted, the world would then be stayed on its march.

    Strong   Fear   Truth  
  • My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

    Music   Mother   Song  
    FaceBook post by Etta James from Aug 28, 2013
  • I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.

  • Labor gives birth to ideas.

  • We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

  • There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be happy; it needs the desire for knowledge and the determination to eschew pleasant myths; it needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

    Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.520, Psychology Press
  • Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.

    Song   Food   Writing  
    "Puck Goes Back to His (Ginger) Roots". Interview with Perry Garfinkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.
  • The creative adult is the child who has survived.

    Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “No Time to Spare: Thinking about what Matters”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The power of imagination makes us infinite.

    John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.321, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Doubt is the enemy of creativeness.

    Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Creating a Role”, p.68, A&C Black
  • If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.

    Francis A. Schaeffer (2009). “Art and the Bible”, p.16, InterVarsity Press
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