Letter to A.S. Suvorin (August 18, 1891)
Letters
“Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to his brother, A.P. Chekhov (May 10, 1886)
Original: Одиночество в творчестве тяжелая штука. Лучше плохая критика, чем ничего…
“It is better to work out than rust out.”
Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya (1860–1962) Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore
Even at the age of 102 he said this as quoted in [Our Leaders, http://books.google.com/books?id=YwTh-vjSFXUC&pg=PA51, 1989, Children's Book Trust, 978-81-7011-701-8, 63]
“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (1974), p. 143
“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”
Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
Richard Holbrooke (1941–2010) American diplomat
On the strategies of the Clinton Global Initiative conference, as quoted in "Clinton global aid meeting gathers $1.25 bln" in The (Malaysian) Star (18 September 2005) http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/9/18/worldupdates/2005-09-18T070527Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-216516-1&sec=Worldupdates <br class="br">2000s <br class="br">Context: The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy … The U. N. by contrast is sterile, overly concerned with protocol, overly formal, filled with set-piece speeches. This is what the U. N. in theory is supposed to be but can't.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
The Celebration of Intellect (1861)
“It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work.”
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
