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The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Martin Luther King Jr.
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
Antonin Artaud
The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing.
John Kellogg
Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
George Kneller
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
Florence King
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.
J.K. Rowling
That which builds is better than that which is built.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
Paul Ambroise Valery
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
Kurt Vonnegut
Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
Ray Kroc
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark Twain
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
W. H. Auden
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
Erich Fromm
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
Gerald G. Jampolsky
Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven.
I Ching
When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
Margaret Sackville
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of R
You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something -- that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
Edward Steichen, Wisdom
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
Charles Du Bos, What Is Literatu
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Pe
