Laozi Quotes, Creative Quotes, Taoism Quotes

When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

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The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

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We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

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If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

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Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.

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The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

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Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

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Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Reality Quotes , Creative Quotes

You work so hard at something to make sure that it's very pure and very genuine and very steadfast to who you are, so creative control for me is a big one. Thankfully, I've been able to retain 98% of it which I never really expected, so I'm very grateful to be able to control what I can.

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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

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The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

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Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.

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One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.

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I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.

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You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

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There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

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Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

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To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

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