Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Men Quotes, Creative Quotes

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

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Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

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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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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.

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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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I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

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Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

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To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

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

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I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.

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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

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Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

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Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.

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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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Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

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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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We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

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