"Routine kills creative thought."
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"Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process."
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"The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way."
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"Creative people are 50% ego and 50% insecurity."
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"There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative."
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"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
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"The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence."
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"God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just."
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"The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work."
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"Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose."
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"Happiness should be something which results from the creative, genuine, intense relatedness - awareness, responsiveness, to everything in life - to man, to nature."
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"One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged."
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"In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy."
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"None of us are as creative as all of us."
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"If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language"
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"Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists."
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"You do what you have to do to compete, and that takes you to places where you are in a relentless state to find an edge and compete. That mentality keeps you on and on point. The how is following the drive, being resourceful and creative."
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"Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us."
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"Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes."
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"Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process."
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