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What if some games, and the more general concept of 'play,' not only provide outlets for entertainment but also function as means for creative expression, as instruments for conceptual thinking, or as tools to help examine or work through social issues. ~ Mary Flanagan
Creative Expression quotes by Mary Flanagan
There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug-addicts. Who the hell would bother with a Rolling Stones without booze or with a Jimi Hendrix without heroin? ~ Lars Von Trier
Creative Expression quotes by Lars Von Trier
If you're alive, you're creative. ~ Patti Digh
Creative Expression quotes by Patti Digh
Using creative expression as a means to a professional end makes me curl up a bit. ~ Jenny Slate
Creative Expression quotes by Jenny Slate
If you feel the need to do it - to write, or paint, or take photos or anything - then that's what you have to do. That's the one most important thing you can do. Because if you don't, then there isn't any point to anything, right? You've got to do it. You've got to keep writing. ~ Kacen Callender
Creative Expression quotes by Kacen Callender
The verbal text of a play, especially one by a genius, is the manifestation of the clarity, the subtlety, the concrete power to express invisible thoughts and feelings of the author himself. Inside each and every word there is an emotion, a thought, that produced the word and justifies its being there. ~ Konstantin Stanislavski
Creative Expression quotes by Konstantin Stanislavski
Creative expression is not just a means of getting attention, although some have approached art that way. Think of art as a way of connecting, of sharing your insights with others. ~ Nita Leland
Creative Expression quotes by Nita Leland
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein
Creative Expression quotes by Albert Einstein
The paradox that you need to comfortably inhabit, if you wish to live a contented creative life, goes something like this: "My creative expression must be the most important thing in the world to me (if I am to live artistically), and it also must not matter at all (if I am to live sanely)." Sometimes ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Creative Expression quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Creative Expression quotes by Michael Bassey Johnson
The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing. ~ Albert Einstein
Creative Expression quotes by Albert Einstein
The Life Triumphant is that which places what a man gives to the world in creative expression far ahead of that which he takes from it of the creations of others. ~ Walter Russell
Creative Expression quotes by Walter Russell
Sometimes I think I should get another job, and do this only for its own purpose. It's important to separate creative expression from making money. ~ Karin Dreijer Andersson
Creative Expression quotes by Karin Dreijer Andersson
I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society ... A society without art will die. ~ Robert Redford
Creative Expression quotes by Robert Redford
I believe eros dwells in our innermost being as the spirit of creative expression. To me, eros is a great path that we must walk, a song we listen to, a game that we hunt and enjoy, a lesson to learn, a garden where flowers bloom, a prodigious puzzle to solve, a book to read, a chapter to write, and an ocean to swim in. That's what eros is to me. ~ Salil Jha
Creative Expression quotes by Salil Jha
Art should be expressed without objectification.It's more than just attraction. Creative expression is not "art for art's sake" but art that breathes true meaning. ~ Henry Johnson Jr
Creative Expression quotes by Henry Johnson Jr
I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring. ~ Rachelle Lefevre
Creative Expression quotes by Rachelle Lefevre
Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression ... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking ... There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry. ~ Herbert Read
Creative Expression quotes by Herbert Read
Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite a long time, if ever. ~ Michael Eric Dyson
Creative Expression quotes by Michael Eric Dyson
A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it ~ Mark Nepo
Creative Expression quotes by Mark Nepo
Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties. ~ Queen Rania Of Jordan
Creative Expression quotes by Queen Rania Of Jordan
Sometimes the right person tells the right story at the right moment, and through a combination of luck and design, a creative expression gains new force. ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda
Creative Expression quotes by Lin-Manuel Miranda
I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health. ~ Robin S. Sharma
Creative Expression quotes by Robin S. Sharma
The field of creativity that exists within each individual is freed by moving out of ideas of wrong-doing or right-doing. If we can answer 'yes' to the question. 'Is my self-worth as strong as my self-critic?' then we are ready to engage our creative expression. ~ Angeles Arrien
Creative Expression quotes by Angeles Arrien
I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth. ~ Jared Leto
Creative Expression quotes by Jared Leto
My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Creative Expression quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
My creative expression must be the most important thing in the world to me (if I am to live artistically), and it also must not matter at all (if I am to live sanely). ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Creative Expression quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
...While many who have debated the image of female sexuality have put "explicit" and "self-objectifying" on one side and "respectable" and "covered-up" on the other, I find this a flawed means of categorization. [...] There is a creative possibility for liberatory explicitness because it may expand the confines of what women are allowed to say and do. We just need to refer to the history of blues music - one full of raunchy, irreverent, and transgressive women artists - for examples. Yet the overwhelming prevalence of the Madonna/whore dichotomy in American culture means that any woman who uses explicit language or images in her creative expression is in danger of being symbolically cast into the role of whore regardless of what liberatory intentions she may have. ~ Imani Perry
Creative Expression quotes by Imani Perry
Think you're not an artist? Of course you are! Everyone has something special to offer. Go for it! Creative expression is what makes a meal, in a word, Beautiful. Go ahead and find your creative voice in food and feel the power it has to transform your dining experience. ~ Julie Piatt
Creative Expression quotes by Julie Piatt
Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book? ~ Cynthia P. Schneider
Creative Expression quotes by Cynthia P. Schneider
That was when I cut my arms with a razor blade as a means of creative expression. I only did it lightly, just grazing the skin, to see the way the blood would bleed out, to make myself look tougher. Not like some of those kids who keep going deeper and deeper, wondering what they look like down to the bone, because it's a world that's so close and yet so far and so dangerous and so much their own. The only world that is their own. ~ Francesca Lia Block
Creative Expression quotes by Francesca Lia Block
Renaissance man, woman, either way it's a worthy pursuit! Like the painters of Emilia's day, I was raised in an environment that encouraged creative expression. Both my parents were artists, who didn't think much of TV and refused to upgrade our old black and white set. To entertain myself, I made art and wrote puppet shows. ~ Mary Pope Osborne
Creative Expression quotes by Mary Pope Osborne
It [doesn't matter] what you look like, where you come from, or what you do for a living. All that matters is that we continue to fan the flame of humanity by living our lives as the ultimate creative expression of who we really are. ~ Janine Shepherd
Creative Expression quotes by Janine Shepherd
China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression. ~ Richard MacDonald
Creative Expression quotes by Richard MacDonald
If you can't change everything all at once, then at least work on changing something each day. Become aggressive in your battle with the ego. You probably don't need all the things that it wants. You need hope, discipline, creative expression, love, and serenity-these are the important things. Remember, when you are balanced, one stepping stone will lead you to the next. But you will rarely see the whole journey or all the answers at once. ~ Stuart Wilde
Creative Expression quotes by Stuart Wilde
Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed. ~ Shaun McNiff
Creative Expression quotes by Shaun McNiff
When I first began my career I had one dictum that I set myself: to be paid for my work, but not to work for pay. Fame makes it that much easier to follow that maxim." He gave her a sharp look. "At least it does so long as I recognize when I am beginning to paint the obvious, rather than painting what I must express. People would rather you did the same thing over and over again and it becomes very easy to fall into their trap - particularly when you're young and hungry. But the more you do so, the nearer you are drawn to something you should not be a part of that homogeneity that is the death of any form of creative expression. ~ Charles De Lint
Creative Expression quotes by Charles De Lint
Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self. ~ Whit Burnett
Creative Expression quotes by Whit Burnett
Beauty surrounds us, but oftentimes it takes a person with a poetic perception, an artist's way of looking at the world, to first notice the sublime, and then stagecraft the splendor of nature so that other people can perceive their synoptic vision. The spirit and aesthetic intention behind the work is what assigns the work its artistic quality. Great works of poetry and writing, for instance, express not simply a criticism of life, but also encompass a philosophy for living. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Creative Expression quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
Above and beyond all else it must be borne in mind that hatred tends to dry up the springs of creative thought in the life of the hater, so that his resourcefulness becomes completely focused on the negative aspects of his environment. The urgent needs of the personality for creative expression are starved to death. A man's horizon may become so completely dominated by the intense character of his hatred that there remains no creative residue in his mind and spirit to give to great ideas, to great concepts. ~ Howard Thurman
Creative Expression quotes by Howard Thurman
Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV. There was very little Kenyan material, because we had an autocratic ruler who stifled our creative expression. ~ Lupita Nyong'o
Creative Expression quotes by Lupita Nyong'o
Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life. ~ Meridel Le Sueur
Creative Expression quotes by Meridel Le Sueur
The human spirit's unquenchable drive for originality and compulsion for creating art is the compelling force of our humanity. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Creative Expression quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. ~ James A. Michener
Creative Expression quotes by James A. Michener
I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business. ~ Lloyd Kaufman
Creative Expression quotes by Lloyd Kaufman
There is nothing mysterious about space-time. Every speck of matter, every idea, is a space-time event. We cannot experience anything or conceive of anything that exists outside of space-time. Just as experience precedes all awareness and creative expression, the visual language of our photographs should ever more strongly express the fourth dimensional structure of the real world. ~ Wynn Bullock
Creative Expression quotes by Wynn Bullock
The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities. ~ Benjamin Greene
Creative Expression quotes by Benjamin Greene
Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted.
This was my mantra when I published my first book in 1990, and still holds true. When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. Sometimes people wonder or worry whether people will like or approve of their creative expression. It's none of your business. It's your business to stay present and focused for the work of your deepest dreams. It might look crooked or strange, or be very odd-but if it delights you, then it is yours, and will find it's way into other hearts. ~ SARK
Creative Expression quotes by SARK
My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom. ~ Abbie Cornish
Creative Expression quotes by Abbie Cornish
Furthermore, we had witnessed over and over again that making opportunities for creative expression within a context of care and connection is a seemingly magical key for unlocking that hope and resilience. And it doesn't require the work of experts. We can all do this. ~ Peggy Taylor
Creative Expression quotes by Peggy Taylor
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Creative Expression quotes by Elbert Hubbard
I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn't in the curriculum at my school when I was in sixth grade. ~ Rodman Philbrick
Creative Expression quotes by Rodman Philbrick
The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon. ~ Denholm Elliott
Creative Expression quotes by Denholm Elliott
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. ~ Kris Kristofferson
Creative Expression quotes by Kris Kristofferson
But her expression remained stormy, like her mother's whenever she heard someone praise Scarlett Johansson's good looks. (Tip: never mention Scarlett Johansson around Aprodite.) ~ Rick Riordan
Creative Expression quotes by Rick Riordan
Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work. ~ Maurice Sendak
Creative Expression quotes by Maurice Sendak
Audition? What did you have in mind?"
He laughs. "Nothing too creative. I don't want to push my luck with the sexual harassment thing. Yet. ~ M. Leighton
Creative Expression quotes by M. Leighton
We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
Creative Expression quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
The word "open" and the expression "opening her legs" were, on her lover's lips, charged with such uneasiness and power that she could never hear them without experiencing a kind of internal prostration, a sacred submission, as though a god, and not he, had spoken to her. ~ Pauline Reage
Creative Expression quotes by Pauline Reage
Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall. ~ Frederick Lenz
Creative Expression quotes by Frederick Lenz
Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to 'play God', the world as we know it wouldn't exist today. ~ Ramez Naam
Creative Expression quotes by Ramez Naam
My dad said to me the other day, I really am an artistic person. I was shocked as I never saw him as a creative. I think me and my sisters are living out that side of him as my sister is another creative person, she's a songwriter. ~ Robert Pattinson
Creative Expression quotes by Robert Pattinson
Marketing is not what lures a writer to this pursuit. Marketing is the adversary that arrives smuggled inside the Trojan Horse of one's creative impulse. ~ Jane Friedman
Creative Expression quotes by Jane Friedman
Keep your whole being on the thing you are turning into words. The minute you flinch, and take your mind off this thing, and begin to look at the words and worry about them... Then your worry goes into them and they set about killing each other. So you keep going as long as you can, then look back and see what you have written. After a bit of practice and after telling yourself you are going to use any old word that comes into your head so long as it seems right, you will surprise yourself. You will read back through what you have written and you will get a shock. You will have captured a spirit, a creature. ~ Ted Hughes
Creative Expression quotes by Ted Hughes
To Cam surprise, she was smiling up at him steadily, her eyes midnight.
His expression turned quizzical. "What's so amus­ing?"
Amelia toyed with a button on his coat. "I was just thinking . . . tonight those two old hens will probably go to their beds, cold and alone." An impish grin curved her lips. "Whereas I will be with a wicked, handsome Rom who will keep me warm all night. ~ Lisa Kleypas
Creative Expression quotes by Lisa Kleypas
She winced at the rush of pain that shuddered through the base of her skull. "Holy balls, my head hurts."
"God, your mouth." The way he said it almost sounded like a groan.
"I think you like my mouth." The instant the words were out she wished she could reel them back in. Oh yeah, clearly she had a concussion. Or freaking brain damage.
To her surprise, his lips pulled up in the first honest to God smile she'd ever seen from him. It completely transformed his constantly gruff expression into something that should be considered illegal. "You wouldn't be wrong about that," he murmured.
Wait…what? ~ Katie Reus
Creative Expression quotes by Katie Reus
It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings. ~ Humphrey Bogart
Creative Expression quotes by Humphrey Bogart
It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri
Creative Expression quotes by E.A. Bucchianeri
Quality, service, cleanliness, and value. ~ Cavett Robert
Creative Expression quotes by Cavett Robert
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem. ~ Michelangelo
Creative Expression quotes by Michelangelo
I must protest." "To whom?" That seemed to flummox him. "I don't know," he finally said. "But a protest must be lodged nonetheless." "I don't think the dog meant to shoot him," Iris demurred. "You mean the author does not make the canine's motivations clear?" Iris assumed a scrupulously even expression. "Even she lacks such talent. ~ Julia Quinn
Creative Expression quotes by Julia Quinn
Evolution is fundamentally creative, and when we align ourselves with the evolutionary movements of consciousness, the universe itself puts wind in our sails. Quantum thinking goes beyond the thoughts we're aware of; it includes unconscious processing, which doesn't just expand our boundaries, but can also free us from the suffering that conscious processing (sometimes known as 'the monkey mind') creates. ~ Amit Goswami
Creative Expression quotes by Amit Goswami
To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Creative Expression quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors. Here again, as in the mere exposure effect, the connection makes biological sense. A good mood is a signal that things are generally going well, the environment is safe, and it is all right to let one's guard down. A bad mood indicates that things are not going very well, there may be a threat, and vigilance is required. ~ Daniel Kahneman
Creative Expression quotes by Daniel Kahneman
Although 'jumping to conclusions' is an expression, rather than an activity, it is as dangerous as jumping off a cliff, jumping in front of a moving train, and jumping for joy. If you jump off a cliff, you have a very good chance of experiencing a painful landing unless there is something below you to cushion your fall, such as a body of water or an immense pile of tissue paper, If you jump in front of moving train, you have a very good chance of experiencing a painful voyage unless you are wearing some sort of train-proof suit. And if you jump for joy, you have a very good chance of experiencing a painful bump on the head, unless you make sure you are standing someplace with very high ceilings, which joyous people rarely do. Clearly, the solution to anything involving jumping is either to make sure you are jumping to a safe place, or not jumping at all.
But it is hard not to jump at all when you are jumping to conclusions, and it is impossible to make sure that you are jumping to a safe place, because all 'jumping to conclusions' means is that you are believing something is true even though you don't actually know whether it is or not. ~ Lemony Snicket
Creative Expression quotes by Lemony Snicket
Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all. ~ Stuart Wilde
Creative Expression quotes by Stuart Wilde
A consistently highly creative person is generally irresponsible. ~ Theodore Levitt
Creative Expression quotes by Theodore Levitt
She remembered what Jem, the ex-Silent Brother who'd helped preside over her parabatai ceremony, had said about what Julian was to her, that there was an expression for it in his native Chinese, zhi yin.
"The one who understands your music."
Emma couldn't play a note on any instrument , but Julian understood her music. ~ Cassandra Clare
Creative Expression quotes by Cassandra Clare
We are all individualized expressions of God, of oneness. But we do have personality differences. Everyone who has had more than one child knows that they come in with personalities. The moment they come in - some come in screaming, some sleep through that first night and stay peaceful the rest of their lives - you see the differences. ~ Wayne Dyer
Creative Expression quotes by Wayne Dyer
Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize. ~ F. Sionil Jose
Creative Expression quotes by F. Sionil Jose
With Typekit, you sign on, you pay a single subscription fee. We're including that as part of Creative Cloud. ~ Kevin Lynch
Creative Expression quotes by Kevin Lynch
[America] doesn't have an emphasis anymore on original discovery. Everything is based on teaching and learning for tests. Memorizing what you are taught, not on actually making discoveries. People are being treated as herded cattle instead of as human beings capable of making original, creative discoveries. ~ Kesha Rogers
Creative Expression quotes by Kesha Rogers
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted. ~ Bat For Lashes
Creative Expression quotes by Bat For Lashes
Removed from its more restrictive sense, masturbation has become an expression for everything that has proved, for lack of human contact, to be void of meaning. We have communication problems, suffer from egocentrism and narcissism, are frustrated by information glut and loss of environment; we stagnate despite the rising GNP. ~ Gunter Grass
Creative Expression quotes by Gunter Grass
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