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An original is
a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an
originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we
are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To
create is divine, to reproduce is human.
-- Man Ray
1890-1976, American
Photographer
Ideally a
painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become
conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through
his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself,
all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that
he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition.
Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching,
detaining them, will find them transformed like the
beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold
because some small detail was not taken care of.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
1875-1926, German Poet
Whoever
undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating
himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of
others have constituted the radical interest of our century,
whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.
-- Harold Rosenberg
1906-1978, American Art
Critic, Author
When all is
said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition
for creation.
-- Margaret Sackville
1881-1963, British Poet
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One of the
greatest necessities in America is to discover creative
solitude.
-- Carl Sandburg
1878-1967, American Poet
The creative
person, the person who moves from an irrational source of
power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes.
Under all the superficial praise of the ''creative'' is the
desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the
nonmystic, a war to the death.
-- May Sarton
1912-, American Poet,
Novelist
It is wise to
learn; it is God-like to create.
-- John Saxe
The person who
can combine frames of reference and draw connections between
ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one
who makes the creative breakthrough.
-- Denise Shekerjian
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