~ Creation and Creativity Quotes ~

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[highlight-text]Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work - their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.

Marilyn Machlowitz

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[highlight-text]An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

William Faulkner

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[highlight-text]The life of the creative man is led directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Saul Steinberg

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[highlight-text]I am a choreographer. A choreographer is a poet. I do not create. God creates. I assemble and I will steal from everywhere to do it.

George Balanchine

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[highlight-text]It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

Eric Hoffer

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[highlight-text]Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. )ust put forth a clear enough request and everything your heart truly desires must come to you.

Shakti Gawain

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[highlight-text]God is in the world or nowhere creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine of God and that participation is his immortality ....

Alfred North Whitehead

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[highlight-text]Now I really make the little idea from clay and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it look at it from underneath see it from one view hold it against the sky imagine it any size I like and really be in control almost like God creating something.

Henry Moore

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[highlight-text]Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives . . . most of the things that are interesting important and human are the results of creativity . . . when we are involved in it we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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[highlight-text]In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

E. M. Forster

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[highlight-text]What another would have done as well as you do not do it. What another would have said as well as you do not say it. What another would have written as well do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

Andre Gide