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"We are thinking, willing, knowing, conscious centers of Life. We are surrounded by, immersed in, and there is flowing through us, a creative Something ... call It what you will."
"One who is connected to the Energy Stream is more powerful than a million who are not. And two who are harmoniously focused and connected to the Energy Stream brings about a co-creative endeavor that cannot be matched by anything else in all of the Universe."
"The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes."
"The key question isn't, 'What fosters creativity?' But it is, 'Why isn't everyone creative?'"
"You work so hard at something to make sure that it's very pure and very genuine and very steadfast to who you are, so creative control for me is a big one. Thankfully, I've been able to retain 98% of it which I never really expected, so I'm very grateful to be able to control what I can."
"We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution."
"The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster."
"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long."
"It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning."
"The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops"
"Life is about trying things to see if they work."
"If we can (generate) the right emotion inside of us, we can get ourselves to do anything. If you don’t have the money, but you’re creative and determined enough, you’ll find the way."
"A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things."
"I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times."
"Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony."
"Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks."
"The most important thing, in order to forge one's own creative personality, is to travel, to see different environments, different cultures. I wanted to try to imagine a new kind of structure in architecture. In general, architects follow fashions. They're neoclassical, postmodern."
"Sex energy is the creative energy of all creative geniuses."
"The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe."
"People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory."
