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There is the
happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of
dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture,
writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony,
devising new invention, creating a vast industry.
-- Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author
The desire to
create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy,
ambition. If one is something one really does not need to
make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There
exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher
Thoughts give
birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor
sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a
new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man
undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
-- Philipus A. Paracelsus
German Physician and Chemist
Out of nothing
can come, and nothing can become nothing.
-- Persius
34-62 AD, Satirical Poet
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I do not seek,
I find.
-- Pablo Picasso
1881-1973, Spanish Artist
The chief
enemy of creativity is good taste.
-- Pablo Picasso
1881-1973, Spanish Artist
Creativity
represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited
energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy-the
sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult
intelligence.
-- Norman Podhoretz
I understood
that all the material of a literary work was in my past
life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of
frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in
pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or
even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the
ingredients which will nourish the plant.
-- Marcel Proust
1871-1922, French Novelist
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