"Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy."
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"Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God."
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"There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away."
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"When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind."
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"The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'"
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"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment."
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"If you've got a talent, protect it."
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"(The Nutty Professor) was a labor of love. It was a total film. It was the most productive, creative work of my life."
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"Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater. [...] when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody."
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"Always push to be creative."
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"Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law."
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"We have a natural creative ability and it is very important to realize this."
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"I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off."
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"As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am."
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"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."
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"Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand."
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"Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative."
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"What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul."
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"Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity."
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"In our willingness to step into the unknown, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe."
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