“A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.”
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Will Self11
English writer and journalist 1961Related quotes
Leonard E. Read (1898–1983) American academic
Leonard Read Journals, November 4, 1951 https://history.fee.org/leonard-read-journal/1951/leonard-e-read-journal-november-1951/
“In any critical situation the forward move is a creative act.”
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975) Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice President and the second President of India
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Context: In the chessboard of life, the different pieces have powers which vary with the context and the possibilities of their combination are numerous and unpredictable. The sound player has a sense of right and feels that, if he does not follow it, he will be false to himself. In any critical situation the forward move is a creative act.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
Thomas Babington Macaulay, On John Dryden (1828)
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
On John Dryden (1828)
“Having good ideas is critical to the success of any creative work.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Avere buone idee è fondamentale per il successo di qualsiasi lavoro creativo.
Source: prevale.net
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer
Source: This and That and the Other (1912), Ch. XXXII : The Barbarians , p. 282
Context: In a word, the Barbarian is discoverable everywhere in this that he cannot make; that he can befog or destroy, but that he cannot sustain; and of every Barbarian in the decline or peril of every civilisation exactly that has been true.
We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid.
We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us: we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond: and on these faces there is no smile.