#creativity

A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument —

_Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims_

The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality… to define what is real.

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Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

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Individuality, conceived as a temporal development involves uncertainty, indeterminacy, or contingency. Individuality is

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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard

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Regressive listeners behave like children. Again and again and with stubborn malice, they demand the one dish they have

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The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is

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There are two classes of poets — the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell

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The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

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The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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In fact the best things we have come from madness, when it is given as a gift of the god. The prophetess of Delphi and

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Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

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Philosophy becomes poetry and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character;...

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Genius is the ability to act wisely without precedent — the power to do the right thing the first time. A capacity for

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Boredom sets in right after the creative act is finished. The act of creating is stimulating and exciting and in the

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Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

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What never was seen or heard of, may yet be conceived; nor is any thing beyond the power of thought, except what implies

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Irony is the clear consciousness of eternal agility, of an infinitely teeming chaos.

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Almost everything is imitation… The most original minds borrowed from one another… It is with books as with the fire in

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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. … For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it

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Man frees himself by bringing forth God or making him visible, and this is how he becomes immortal.

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