The
thing that makes a creative person is to be creative
and that is all there is to it.
-- Edward Albee
1928-, American
Playwright, Dramatist
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to
a problem.
-- Brian Aldiss
1925-, British
Science Fiction Writer
Had I
been present at the creation of the world I would
have proposed some improvements.
-- Alfonso X
1221-1284, Spanish
King of León and Castile
The
creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He
wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient
history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current
manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog
futures. Because he never knows when these ideas
might come together to form a new idea. It may
happen six minutes later or six months, or six years
down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.
-- Carl Ally
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No one has
ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented
except literally to get out of hell.
-- Antonin Artaud
1896-1948, French Theater
Producer, Actor, Theorist
The lash may
force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to
spiritual creativity.
-- Sholem Asch
1880-1957, Polish-born
American Writer
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
1907-1973, Anglo-American
Poet
Much ingenuity
with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing
than much money without ingenuity.
-- Arnold Bennett
1867-1931, British Novelist
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