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Creative Act Quotes

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. Marcel Duchamp
Joseph Campbell quote: "The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new..."
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward. Joseph Campbell
It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it. Robert Motherwell
Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act. Christopher Dawson
Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act. Ram Dass
The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas. It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down - sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray. At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological... Terence McKenna
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish..."
If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure. Madeleine L'Engle
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
The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it. Lukas Foss
Arthur Erickson quote: "It is the mystery of the creative act that something other..."
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over. Arthur Erickson
Atom Egoyan quote: "My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act,..."
My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration. Atom Egoyan
Michael Polanyi quote: "Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which..."
Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence. Michael Polanyi
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
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it. Ben Okri
Lawrence Halprin quote: "The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was..."
The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act. Lawrence Halprin

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