"Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth."
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"Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles."
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"You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity."
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"Solitude is independence."
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"Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you."
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"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
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"I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)"
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"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
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"Art starts alone - and convinces society later."
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"Whether it be personal or musical, I just think Im a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity."
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"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
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"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence."
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"There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity."
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"Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness."
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."
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"A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists."
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"No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interaction and synthesis: half-baked ideas from a bar room, rocks in the field, chains of thought from lonely walks, numbers squeezed from rocks in a laboratory, numbers from a calculator riveted to a desk, fancy equipment usually malfunctioning on expensive ships, cheap equipment in the human cranium, arguments before a road cut."
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"The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself."
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"If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand."
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"The woman is skin covered prozac I like to call her. Half the trick to a film like this is keeping a sort of emotional level going and keeping an attitude that induces creativity on the set. You have to be in a good mood for that. You have to be happy to make a comedy I think and Anne sort of ensured that every time by expressing most of her feelings through the exciting medium of dance."
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