"Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way."
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"Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life."
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"Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man's place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man's own nature."
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"Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts."
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"I have always felt that I have observed life in a different way to others... Music has always been one creative outlet for me, but now I'm happy to add another one too, that being photography"
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"If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude."
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"Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative."
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"Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests."
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"It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head."
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"Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions."
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"Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual."
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"About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper."
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"I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative."
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"We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains."
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"You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
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"[My favourite are] the films of Agnes Varda, because of her sense of humor and the intimate, personal way she tells her stories. She is brave in taking creative risks, and her curiosity in others is so contagious. This brings me closer to the subjects in her films."
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"Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting."
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"Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping."
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"I would say Colin Jost is Kanye West because he takes like the creative risk a lot of times, whereas I'm like, "Uh, I don't know...""
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"For me, the creative process for me always starts in a personal place. I step away from my iPod or any records or CDs."
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