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If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing
– Glenn Gould

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  2. Being creative is a beautiful thing. Being creative for other people is work. No one wants to work at being creative. – A Dalcourt
  3. Self-love is having appreciation for oneself, respecting oneself, and caring for oneself, and the actions that help us mature also help it grow. – Tisha Marie Payton
  4. To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor. – Dani Shapiro
  5. Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs. – Herbert M Shelton
  6. I always assumed everybody shared my love for overcast skies. It came as a shock to find out that some people prefer sunshine. – Glenn Gould
  7. Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  8. A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society. – Edward Abbey
  9. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens. – Madeleine LEngle
  10. You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. – Maria Callas
  11. It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become creative scar tissue and block your growth. – Julia Cameron
  12. Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information it is a creative human activity. – Stephen Jay Gould
  13. That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art – panem et Circen. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  14. In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious. – Viktor E Frankl
  15. The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work of your hands. – Euginia Herlihy
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  17. In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid. – Terry Pratchett
  18. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  19. The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. – Julia Cameron
  20. To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change. – Lorii Myers
  21. To strive to better oneself is natural and expected. To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy. – TA Miles
  22. One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much. – Marty Rubin
  23. [It’s] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97 – Marcel Benabou
  24. It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies. – Sylvia Townsend Warner
  25. One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves. – Marcel Proust
  26. If a woman does not want she actually wants, if she wants she certainly wants it! – Thiruman Archunan
  27. For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator. – Michael Bassey Johnson
  28. Soon would come the night in which there was no more work -“ not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart. – Paul Russell
  29. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher
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  31. In order to be creative rules cannot exist. The creative mind deserves no less. – Steven Cuoco
  32. God wants us to be leaders in all levels of society and to be in charge of the society – Sunday Adelaja
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  34. If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself. – W Somerset Maugham
  35. A willingness to let go of an old self and allow creative thoughts to remake a person into a better version of oneself requires an act of courage. – Kilroy J Oldster
  36. An artist reveals his naked soul in his work – and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it. – Ayn Rand
  37. An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  38. Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you. – Elizabeth Gilbert
  39. It’s sometimes difficult to align our wants with our needs, for old programing and new paradigms vibrate at very different levels. – Glenn A Maltais
  40. Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it’s tough to accomplish anything else. – Glenn Beck

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