Broadside magazine interview (1968; published 1976)
Context: Leave the old and dying America and use your creative energies to help form a new America, which would be de-militarized, more humanistic, where the police are less hostile and closer to the community, where the wealthy are not given unleashed power for the exploitation of the people. And, mostly because it's now a matter of life and death, reassert an ecological balance with the environment, which means the people in the oil companies and the car companies and the space industry and all the other industries will have to be brought into account, so that there will be a new definition of government which has to be closer to the people and less close to special interests which are far more harmful than any revolutionaries.
“Dying creatively is the hallmark of vivisystems.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
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“Hate is not a creative force. Love is a creative force.”
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Source: Saint Maximilian Kolbe - Knight of the Immaculate, The Society of the Holy Rosary.
Speaking at the Get Shamrocked Irish Festival (19 September 2014).
“Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.”
From Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art"), Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
“One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”
Variant: There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
“The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.”
As quoted in Artist to Artist : Inspiration and Advice from Visual Artists Past & Present (1998), p. 62
Posthumous quotes
The Hidden Art of Homemaking: Creative Ideas for Enriching Everyday Life (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1972, ISBN 978-0842313988
Iraq? They just need to think it through (2007)
Context: Creative thinking — in terms of idea creativity — is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured. You can never tell how a policy has been reached just by looking at the end result. Some people who have achieved a huge amount do not come across as impressive when you speak to them.