"It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection."
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"I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy."
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"What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse."
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"Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic."
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"The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well."
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"The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want."
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"So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order."
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"You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you."
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"The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them."
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"Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76)"
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"No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them."
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"There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process."
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"I fear getting things wrong and messing up, and this makes no rational sense. When I'm mindful and awake, I know mistakes are part of a creative process. But when I become disconnected, I can be incredibly mean and hard on myself."
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"The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist."
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"The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic."
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"Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act."
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"Without freedom, there is no creation."
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"Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents."
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"Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead. Dreams can drive you. Dreams can make you skip over obstacles. When you allow your dreams to pull you, they unleash a creative force that can overpower any obstacle in your path."
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"Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power."
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