"What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread."
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"Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist."
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"All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine."
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"There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons."
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"It's not that I don't believe in creativity and innovation and new ideas, and the creativity that comes with fashion, which I really respect. But one of my biggest concerns is just how cheap we expect everything to be."
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"Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing."
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"There are people who are great technical players like Eric Clapton, and there are people who are great intuitive songwriters like Daniel Johnston. There are sometimes people who are great at both the technique and the creativity, the two sides of the coin, maybe Jimi Hendrix."
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"I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity, and an assured band leader."
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"I think people are at their most creative when they're relaxed. I don't believe that tension is good for creativity. Everyone is relaxed and therefore can feel able to express their own individual creativity and lots of ideas come in. It's a joy like that."
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"Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again."
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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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"When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it."
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"Serendipity looks a lot like creativity, at least at a distance, and if I can tap into these ways in which one thing resembles another."
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"Producing and deejaying are two different outlets to the same creativity. When I'm in the studio I get to create and go through my process. When I'm on stage I get to share the results of that process with everybody. It's two different experiences but they both go back to the same thing and I love them both."
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"Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him. He came to us from the creator, trailing creativity in abundance. Despite the anguish, his life was sheathed in mother love, family love, and survived and did more than that. He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his."
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"People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts."
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"In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death."
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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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"I basically expect anything. Isn't that wild? I used to surprise myself a lot: certain moves, how I'd get out of trouble. But at some point, you accept the talent that you have, you accept your creativity."
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"I associate creativity with independent music."
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