#creative

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

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Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields? ↗

— Kanye West

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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#act #attain #beauty #chaos #convert

The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals. ↗

— Saul Williams

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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

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