• I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.7 · 46 votes · 147 reads

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• In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  5.0 · 51 votes · 64 reads

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• It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

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  Ennio Morricone

  MusicianItalian1928 · 20th century

  4.0 · 56 votes · 17 reads

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• It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.3 · 14 votes · 1 reads

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• Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.9 · 22 votes · 126 reads

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• Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

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  Richard Bach

  WriterAmerican1936 · 20th century

  4.0 · 35 votes · 51 reads

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• Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

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  Erich Fromm

  PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century

  5.0 · 7 votes · 169 reads

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• Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

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  Arnold Bennett

  NovelistEnglish1867 · 19th century

  4.2 · 38 votes · 105 reads

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• No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

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  Antonin Artaud

  PoetFrench1896 · 19th century

  4.6 · 12 votes · 143 reads

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• One measure of how creative you are is how you respond to changes in your circumstances and environment. How flexible are you? Consider how water adapts to its environment: evaporation, condensation, snowflake, melting, flowing, goes around rocks, fills c

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 53 votes · 44 reads

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• Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

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  Paul Goodman

  AuthorAmerican1911 · 20th century

  4.7 · 15 votes · 162 reads

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• Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.6 · 39 votes · 121 reads

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• That which builds is better than that which is built.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 54 votes · 197 reads

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.7 · 58 votes · 26 reads

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• The legs are the wheels of creativity.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.6 · 51 votes · 80 reads

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• The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

  

  Hector Berlioz

  MusicianFrench1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 12 votes · 59 reads

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• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  3.0 · 57 votes · 49 reads

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• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.3 · 36 votes · 16 reads

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• The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.0 · 25 votes · 194 reads

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• To create something you must be something.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.3 · 42 votes · 193 reads

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• We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

  

  José Ortega y Gasset

  PhilosopherSpanish1883 · 19th century

  4.0 · 29 votes · 172 reads

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• When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.6 · 49 votes · 107 reads

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• Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

  

  Richard Wagner

  MusicianGerman1813 · 19th century

  3.5 · 54 votes · 39 reads

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