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• The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn’t end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two – recording and producing – into a single event.

  Rem Koolhaas

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• Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

  Brenda Ueland

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• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

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• Literature – creative literature – unconcerned with s*x, is inconceivable.

  Gertrude Stein

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• Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

  Steve Jobs

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• Acting isn’t really a creative profession. It’s an interpretative one.

  Paul Leonard Newman

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• The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.

  Robert Sternberg

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• And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

  Robert Sternberg

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• I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

  George Woodcock

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• Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

  George Washington Carver

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• Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

  George Santayana

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• Writing is truly a creative art – putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

  William Shatner

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• That’s why, when Alias came along, I knew I’d be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.

  Victor Garber

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• There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

  Auguste Rodin

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• It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

  W. Somerset Maugham

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• Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they’ll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

  Ben Okri

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• My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

  Conrad Hall

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• I’m a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I’m a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America – which I find such a positive place – well, I took to it like a duck to water.

  Victoria Beckham

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• My hand is the extension of the thinking process – the creative process.

  Tadao Ando

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• The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.

  Corliss Lamont

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