Gustav Fechner – Founder of psychophysics
Gustav Theodor Fechner
(April 19, 1801, Groß Särchen, near Muskau, Lower Lusatia, (now Żarki Wielkie in commune Trzebiel, Poland) – November 28, 1887, Leipzig, Germany) (aged 86)
Nationality: Germany
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Psychologist, philosopher, physicist and writer.
Specification: Founder of psychophysics, one of the founders of modern experimental psychology
Gender: Male
Gustav Fechner Quotes:
1. Those only have had great influence in the world who have recognized the spiritual tendency of the time in which they lived and have directed their free action and thought into that tendency.
2. Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.
3. A Goethe, a Schiller, a Napoleon, a Luther, still live among us, thinking and acting in us, as awakened creative individuals…
4. The mind of man is alike indistinguishably his own possession and that of the higher intelligences, and what proceeds from it belongs equally to both always, but in different ways.
5. Have the best constantly in mind, and be careful only that the memory that you yourself are to leave behind shall be a blessing to you in the future.
Jesus Christ Spiritual Quotes
JESUS CHRIST
Jesus of Nazareth, Yeshua Ha-Nozri, Jesus is the Messiah, Christo (Greek), Christ (English)
(c. 6-4 BC, Bethlehem Nazareth, Judea – 7 April 30 AD, Jerusalem, Calvary or Golgotha Judea, Roman Empire) (crucifixion).
Nationality: Ancient Rome
Category: Votaries of Spirit
Occupation: Spiritual teacher
Specification: Founder of Christianity, The Son of God and God incarnate in the Christian religion
Gender: Male
Holiday: Birthday Is Holiday 25 December ( 7 January), Christmas
Jesus Christ Quotes:
1. A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
2. Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
3. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbour as yourself.
4. Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
5. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
6. Let me into your lives, your world. Live on me, so that you may become truly alive.
7. Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.
8. For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
9. Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
10. But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.
11. If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
12. If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
13. Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
14. With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
15. Judge not, that ye be not judged.
16. Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
17. Arise, and be not afraid.
18. Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
Celebrities about Creativity
Famous celebrities including Coco Chanel, Ralph Lauren, David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey, Heidi Klum, Sienna Miller, and Miranda Kerr share their perspectives on creativity. They emphasize concepts like failure as a step towards success, the importance of innovation and dreaming big, trusting instincts, and the transformative power of attitudes. Creative expressions, they reckon, are essential to personal fulfillment.
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Frank Barron – Psychology of Creativity
FRANK BARRON
Frank Xavier Barron
(June 17, 1922, Lansford, Pennsylvania – October 6, 2002, Santa Cruz, California) (Aged 80)
Nationality: United States
Category: Scientists
Occupation: Psychologist, Professor, Non-Fiction Writer, Poet
Specification: A pioneer in the psychology of creativity and in the study of human personality, professor of Psychology at the University of California Santa Cruz. Psychology of Creativity
Gender: Male
Family: Barron married Nancy Jean Camp in 1961, and they had three children: Francis Charles Xavier, Brigid Jessica Sarah, and Anthea Rose Maeve.
Education: In 1937 he attended La Salle University, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1942. He received his Master of Arts from the University of Minnesota in 1948, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1950.
Influences: Dante, Augustine, Yeats, Galton,Pavlov, Fechner, W. James, Freud, Jung, Bergson, Teilhard de Chardin, Binet and Piaget.
Career: Barron served the U.S. Army (1943 – 1946) in Europe as a medical sergeant. He taught as a visiting professor at Harvard, Bryn Mawr College, University of Hawaii, Wesleyan and from 1949 to 1968 worked as a founding member of the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research (IPAR) at UC Berkeley. From 1969 until his retirement in 1992 he taught courses in personality and human creativityat the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Personality: Barron had a gentle heart, great sense of humor and impressed with his erudition , subtlety of mind and love of language. He was fond of poetry and wrote a book of poems “Ghosts”.
Alexander the Great in Art
ALEXANDER THE GREATAlexander III of Macedon
Alexandros Philippou Makedonon
(20/21 July 356 BC, Pella, Macedonia — June 10/13, 323 BC, Babylon) (aged 33)
Nationality: Ancient Greece, Macedonia
Category: Figures
Occupation: Military Leader, ruler, world conqueror
Specification: King of Macedonia, Emperor who created one of the largest empires in ancient history, one of the most successful military leaders in history
Gender: Male
Reign: 336–323 BC
Titles: Hegemon of the Hellenic League, Shahanshah of Persia, Pharaoh of Egypt and King of Asia
Alexander the Great quotes: 1. There is nothing impossible to him who will try. 2. I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart a Musical Genius
full baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart
(27 January 1756, Salzburg, Austria – 5 December 1791, Vienna, Austria)
Nationality: Austria
Category: Art workers
Occupation: Composer
Specification: One of the great figures in the history of music. He is considered as a musical genius, one of the most significant and influential of all classical composers. Classical music.
Gender: Male
Personal life: His mother -Anna Maria Pertl, and father Leopold Mozart, who was composer, concertmaster and an experienced teacher.
Mozart Together with his older sister, Maria Anna, nicknamed “Nannerl”, received intensive musical training from his father. A child prodigy, Mozart at the age of three learned compositions from his father and started to play the keyboard, at age four perfected ballads, at age five he composed his first minuets, had his first piece published when he was eight and wrote his first opera when he was twelve.
On August 4, 1782, he married Constanze Weber against his father’s wishes and they had 6 children, but only two (sons) survived.
Mozart mainly lived in Salzburg and Vienna and during his short life of only 35 years completed several long concert tour throughout Europe, which included stays in Paris, London, Milan, Rome and Prague. At the beginning of his musical career, he played with his father and sister for Louis XV at Versailles and George III in London. During his trips, he met such great composers as J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel, and Joseph Haydn. He taught and gave piano lessons to make ends meet. He enjoyed dancing, joking and playing billiard. Mozart died on 5 December 1791 at the aged of 35. Some have speculated that Mozart was poisoned by rival composer Antonio Salieri, but no proof exists to support that theory. Mozart probably died of rheumatic fever.
Creative style: Mozart had the unique and universal creative style, that formed on the basis of his ability to incorporate many musical elements and style and absorbe, adapt valuable features of others’ music Including
the Baroque. Mozart possessed an powerful musical memory, excellent ability to improvisation, holistic perception and playful attitude towards the world.
Genres: Mozart was a versatile composer, and wrote in every major genre: chamber music, symphonies, operas, Masses.
He mainly wrote Operas, Church Music, Vocal and Choral Music, Orchestral Music, Chamber Music, Piano Music and Organ Music, concert arias and scenes.
Major works: He was also a very prolific composer and composed over 600 works including:21 stage and opera works, 15 Masses, over 50 symphonies, 30 keyboard, 25 piano and 12 violin concertos, dances and sets of dances. His major works are the operas Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro, 1786), Don Giovanni,1787 and Die Zauberflöte, (The Magic Flute, 1791); comic masterpiece the short work for orchestra Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music, 1787) and his last three church pieces: Ave Verum Corpus, 1791, Mass in C Minor, and Requiem (Both remain unfinished).
Mozart Quotes:
1. Music is my life and my life is music.
2. Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
3. The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
4. When I am ….. completely myself, entirely alone… or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.
5. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream.
6. My subject enlarges itself, becomes methodized and define, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statute, at a glance.
7. I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
8. It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.Requiem Piano Concerto No. 21
Inspiring Creativity: Quotes by Renowned Actors & Actresses
Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.
Konstantin Stanislavsky (January 17, 1863 –August 7, 1938), Russian actor and theatre director
Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.
Konstantin Stanislavsky
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
Konstantin Stanislavsky
In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.
Konstantin Stanislavsky
Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.
Konstantin Stanislavsky
Imagination means nothing without doing.
Charles Chaplin (April 16, 1889 –December 25, 1977), English comic actor and filmmaker
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl
Charlie Chaplin
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring
Marlene Dietrich (December 27, 1901 –May 6, 1992), German-American actress
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes – but a movie actor waits.
Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987), American actress.
I don’t know what is better than the work that is given to the actor — to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
Laurence Olivier (May 22, 1907 –July 11, 1989), British actor, director, and producer
The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
Laurence Olivier
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
Bette Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989), American actress
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else
Bette Davis
Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985), American actor and director
I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.”
Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985), American actor and director
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
Peter Ustinov (April 16, 1921 –March 28, 2004), English actor
Acting isn’t really a creative profession. It’s an interpretative one.
Paul Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008), American actor, film director
We come. We go. And in between we try to understand.
Rod Steiger (April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002), American actor
Man is a greater miracle than any god he ever invented.
Rod Steiger
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn’t know how to play them when I was drunk.
Richard Burton (November 10, 1925 –August 5, 1984), Welsh actor
If I’d observed all the rules I’d never have got anywhere.
Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), American actress
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe
Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.
Marilyn Monroe
A career is born in public — talent in privacy.
Marilyn Monroe
I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe
Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer.
Marilyn Monroe
Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‘One tear, right now,’ that one tear would pop out.
Marilyn Monroe
I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.
Audrey Hepburn (May 4,1929 –January 20, 1993), British actress
I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject
Clint Eastwood (born May 31, 1930), American actor and director
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.
Elizabeth Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011), British-American actress
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren (September 20, 1934), Italian actress
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Brigitte Bardot (born 28 September 1934), French former actress and animal rights activist
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews Edwards (born 1 October 1935), British film and stage actress
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly
Julie Andrews
The creative is the place where no one else have ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
Alan Alda (born January 28, 1936), American actor and director
You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
Alan Alda
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
Robert Redford (born August 18, 1936), American actor, film director and producer
I love acting, and I`m not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.
Dustin Hoffman (born August 8, 1937), American actor
Stardom equals freedom. It`s the only equation that matters.
Dustin Hoffman
It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937), American actress
I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else’s head.
Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942), American film actor and producer
Time goes on. So whatever you’re going to do, do it. Do it now. Don’t wait.
Robert De Niro (born August 17, 1943), American actor
One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people’s lives without having to pay the price.
Robert De Niro
Movies are hard work. The public doesn’t see that. The critics don’t see it. But they’re a lot of work. A lot of work.
Robert De Niro
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Steve Martin (born August 14, 1945), American actor and comedian
A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.
Steve Martin
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947), Austrian-born American actor
He lives with his creativity in high gear.
John Travolta (born February 18, 1954), American actor
I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts.
Demi Moore (born November 11, 1962), American actress
…joy is integral to all creativity. Creativity brings joy.
Matthew Fox (born July 14, 1966), American actor
I’m an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don’t imagine I’ll abandon that completely.
Gwyneth Paltrow (born September 27, 1972), American actress
When I’m working I don’t have room to think about myself and my own issues. It’s really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.
Charlize Theron (born 7 August, 1975), South African and American actress
I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.
Charlize Theron
I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it’s hard for me not to. I guess I’ve been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.
Charlize Theron
You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.
Charlize Theron
I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.
Charlize Theron
Creative collaboration is awesome.
Alicia Silverstone (born October 4, 1976), American actress
I think it’s really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.
Mia Wasikowska (born 14 October 1989), Australian actress
Insights on Creativity from Famous Directors
FAMOUS FILM DIRECTORS AND ACTORS ABOUT CREATIVITY
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
Cecil B. DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959), American film director and producer
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra (May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991), Sicilian-born American film director
Don’t follow trends, start trends.
Frank Capra
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.
Walt Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966), American animator, director and screenwriter
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney
You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.
Walt Disney
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.
Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 –March 27, 2002), Austrian-born American filmmaker and screenwriter
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark – that is critical genius.
Billy Wilder
To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.
Akira Kurosawa (March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998), Japanese film director, screenwriter, producer
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.
Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 –July 30, 2007) was a Swedish director, writer and producer
Film has dream, film has music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
Ingmar Bergman
A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini (January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993) was an Italian film director and scriptwriter
What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one…. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one—which is really the realm of the artist.
Federico Fellini
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
Federico Fellini
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
Federico Fellini
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999), American film director and screenwriter
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
Stanley Kubrick
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Stanley Kubrick
What the hell does it all mean anyhow? Nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nothing comes to anything. And yet, there’s no shortage of idiots to babble. Not me. I have a vision.
Woody Allen (December 1, 1935),American screenwriter and director
If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen
You ought to love what you’re doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939), American film director and producer
Art depends on luck and talent.
Francis Ford Coppola
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
Francis Ford Coppola
I realized I probably wouldn’t make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like ‘Godfather’ or ‘Apocalypse.’
Francis Ford Coppola
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
David Lynch (born January 20, 1946), American filmmaker and television director
The concept of absurdity is something I’m attracted to.
David Lynch
I dream for a living.
Steven Spielberg (born December 18, 1946), American film director and screenwriter
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Steven Spielberg
You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can’t even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
Steven Spielberg
I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
Quentin Tarantino (born March 27, 1963), American film director and screenwriter
I steal from every movie ever made.
Quentin Tarantino
When I’m writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I’m doing it, as I’m writing it.
Quentin Tarantino
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