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Psychologists and psychiatrists about creativity
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910), American psychologist and philosopher
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
Belief creates the actual fact.
William James
In the dim background of our mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William James
Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.
William James
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
William James
The creative writer does the same as the child at play. He creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously–that is, which he invests with large amounts of emotion–while separating it sharply from reality. Language has preserved this relationship between children’s play and poetic creation.
Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 –September 23, 1939), Austrian psychiatrist and psychologist
The unreality of the writer’s imaginative world, however, has very important consequences for the technique of his art; for many things which, if they were real, could give no enjoyment, can do so in the play of fantasy, and many excitements which, in themselves, are actually distressing, can become a source of pleasure for the hearers and spectators at the performance of a writer’s work.
Sigmund Freud
…a piece of creative writing, like a day-dream is a continuation of and a substitute for what was once the play of childhood.
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) William Stern (1871- 1938) Joy Guilford (1897-1987)
Pathological theory of Genius. Quotes and aphorisms.
Pathological theory of Genius states that at the basis of geniality are all sorts of abnormalities, a variety of physical and mental health problems that are manifested in eccentric behaviour, nervousness and even mental illness and insanity.
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish to the crowd.
I Chingn ( Classic of Changes), Chinese ancient divination text (1000–750 BC)
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC), Greek philosopher
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65), Roman Stoic philosopher
It is strange that all great men should have some oddness, some little grain of folly mingled with whatever genius they possess.
Moliere (15 January 1622 – 17 February 1673), French playwright and actor
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
Denis Diderot (5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784), French philosopher, art critic, and writer Diderot
Genius is sorrow’s child.
John Adams (October 30 1735 – July 4, 1826), American lawyer, author, statesman, and diplomat
I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.”
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827), English poet, painter
Despair and Genius are too oft connected.
George Gordon Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), English poet
There is suffering in light; an excess burns. Flames is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius”
Victor Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Men have called me mad but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence–whether much that is glorious; whether all that is profound–does not spring from disease of thought, from moods of mind exalted at the expense of general intellect.
Edgar Allen Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849), American writer, editor, and literary critic
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Robert Green Ingersoll ( (August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899), American lawyer and political leader
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity. Cesare Lombroso (6 November 1835 –19 October 1909), Italian criminologist and physician
A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
Friedrich Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900), German philosopher
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900), Irish playwright, novelist, and poet
Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it.
Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955), German novelist, short story writer
Genius sits in a glass house—but in an unbreakable one—conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon’s claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck….
Paul Klee (18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940), Swiss-German artist.
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Antonin Artaud (4 September 1896 – 4 March 1948), French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor
There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906 – August 14, 1972), American pianist, composer, author and actor
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Ian Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964), English author, journalist
Madness in method, that’s genius.
Frank Herbert (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986), American science fiction writer
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), American actress and model
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy.
Michael J. Gelb (born 1952), author and public speaker specializing in creativity and innovation
Creation is messy. You want genius, you get madness; two sides of the same coin.
Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011), American information technology entrepreneur and inventor
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein (born 1956), American screenwriter and humorist
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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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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