"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."
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"The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both."
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"Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex."
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"Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step."
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"Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare."
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"I love design, so it's important for me to have a creative outlet."
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"I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me."
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"The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward."
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"It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse."
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"I think everyone has the potential to be creative but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them."
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"I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true."
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"Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe."
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"A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing."
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"The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act."
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"Your unique creative talents and abilities are flowing through you and are being expressed in deeply satisfying ways. Your creativity is always in demand."
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"Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent."
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"Enthusiasm is when the universe creates through you. You are involved in a creative act. You are bringing something new into this world. When that energy comes in, you feel an intense aliveness that flows into what you do. That is enthusiasm."
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"Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality. The former attempts to maintain the submersion of consciousness; the latter strives for the emergence of consciousness and critical intervention in reality."
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"It's cool that you hear something, but what did you feel and what was your tactile and kinesthetic response to it? Those songs and creative sessions mean the most."
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"There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all."
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