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A "critic" is a man who creates nothing ...

Robert A. Heinlein

Critic, Creativity
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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Creativity
3

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.

William Butler Yeats

Creativity
4

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

Creativity
5

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself -- civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.

Henry Miller

Creativity
6

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

W. H. Auden

Creativity
7

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

Florence King

Creativity
8

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Arthur Koestler

Creativity
9

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Carl Jung

Creativity
10

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

Thomas Troward

Creativity
11

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Erich Fromm

Creativity
12

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

Paul Klee

Creativity
13

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?

Ernest Hemingway

Creativity
14

I do not seek, I find.

Pablo Picasso

Creativity
15

I have asked a lot of my emotions --one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.

Creativity
16

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

William Blake

Creativity
17

I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.

Marcel Proust

Creativity
18

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Creativity
19

It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.

Tennessee Williams

Creativity
20

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Julius Caesar

Creativity
21

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

W. Somerset Maugham

Creativity
22

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Robert Bresson

Creativity
23

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Mark Twain

Creativity
24

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Bruce Lee

Creativity
25

Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series

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Michael Jackson, Music, Philanthropy, Fame, Genius, Creativity, The Jacksons More
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Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Erich Fromm

Creativity
27

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Arnold Bennett

Creativity
28

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Antonin Artaud

Creativity
29

One measure of how creative you are is how you respond to changes in your circumstances and environment. How flexible are you? Consider how water adapts to its environment: evaporation, condensation, snowflake, melting, flowing, goes around rocks, fills containers, etc.

Creativity
30

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Carl Sandburg

Creativity
31

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Paul Valéry

Creativity
32

Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the

Virginia Woolf

Creativity
33

That which builds is better than that which is built.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creativity
34

The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.

Pablo Picasso

Creativity
35

The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.

May Sarton

Creativity
36

The creative process involves getting input, making a recommendation, getting critical review, getting more input, improving the recommendation, getting more critical review... again and again and again.

Creativity
37

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the productive man a yet higher species.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Creativity
38

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

Albert Einstein

Creativity
39

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

Creativity
40

The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Dickens

Creativity
41

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Norman Douglas

Creativity
42

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

Henry Miller

Creativity
43

To create something you must be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Creativity
44

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Arthur Koestler

Creativity
45

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

José Ortega y Gasset

Creativity
46

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

Harold Rosenberg

Creativity

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A "critic" is a man who creates nothing ...

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

I do not seek, I find.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

One measure of how creative you are is how you respond to changes in your circumstances and environment. How flexible are you? Consider how water adapts to its environment: evaporation, condensation, snowflake, melting, flowing, goes around rocks, fills containers, etc.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the

That which builds is better than that which is built.

The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.

The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.

The creative process involves getting input, making a recommendation, getting critical review, getting more input, improving the recommendation, getting more critical review... again and again and again.

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the productive man a yet higher species.

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

To create something you must be something.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.