"Catastrophe and creation are twins."
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"We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience."
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"Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting."
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"Stillness alone is the potentiality for creativity; movement alone is creativity restricted to a certain aspect of its expression. But the combination of movement and stillness enables you to unleash your creativity in all directions-wherever the power of your attention takes you."
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"Seek simplicity, and distrust it."
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"Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself."
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"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."
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"I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed."
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"People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself."
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"Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven."
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"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."
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"Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too."
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"One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going."
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"Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no judgment. I can use it productively or destructively. The important thing is to use it. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have."
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"Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude."
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"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."
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"Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now."
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"Constraint inspires creativity"
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"Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared."
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"The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion."
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