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Creativeness has something to do with how you are, rather than with
what you do or think. It is an almost indefinable quality that even
quotations can only skate over and touch upon but lightly without
heavy-handed missing of the mark.
See also
artists, belief, being creative, creativity, genius, living creatively*,
love*, self*, subconscious, talent, wisdom
Quotes
‘To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on
creating oneself endlessly.’
— Henri Bergson
‘Man is what he believes.’
— Anton Chekhov
‘I think, therefore I am.’
— René Déscartes
‘The most beautiful experience we can have is the most mysterious. It is the
fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He
to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause and stand wrapped in
awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.’
— Albert Einstein
‘Make the most of you because that is all there is of you.’
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born
before one dies.’
— Erich Fromm
‘We must become the change we want to see.’
— Mahatma Gandhi
‘Belief is not the beginning of
knowledge—it is the end.’
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
‘If you would create something, you must be something.’
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
‘Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.’
— William James
‘As I played, another dimension of sound welled up unexpectedly from inside
the piano and burned through my fingers. ... There was no more pianist and no
more piano. In this undefended moment of free flight, something changed in my
body and God slipped in. As soon as my mind noticed, God slipped back out
again.’
— Michael Jones
‘When the wind strips us bare, the present moment is often the safest place
to be.’
— Michael Jones
‘In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn then
the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you
either the key or the door to open, except yourself.’
— Jiddi Krishnamurti
‘I try to live right. I always try to adhere to what I think is right, and
that, to me, is the most important part of creative work.’
— Sam Maloof
‘Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or
write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only
at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.’
— Ashley Montagu
‘I don't paint nature. I am nature.’
— Jackson Pollock
‘Our lives teach us who we are.’
— Salman Rushdie
‘The conception of the necessary unit
of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the
imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us
from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as
the totality of being.’
— Bertrand Russell
‘Unrest is the mark of existence.’
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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