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"Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind."
"I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking."
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."
"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
"I always like to be somebody scary. When I was little, my mom used to make our costumes. She's really creative and would make us great costumes without having to spend a lot."
"Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator."
"The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up."
"Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?"
"When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative and visual right brain, and the analytical, logical, verbal left brain, then the whole brain is working...And this tool is best suited to the reality of what life is, because life is not just logical-it is also emotional."
"Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -"
"You must spend time every day, even if it is just a few minutes, in practice of creative envisioning."
"My Dad used to say that the balance of the world relied on all of the monks who were living outside of society in creative isolation. I don't quite understand the ascetic life or the private life or the monastic private life. But I definitely understand privacy's value."
"Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created."
"Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act."
"When you make a movie, it's just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system."
"To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty."
"I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?"
"To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder"
"Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is."
"Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . ."
