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He who is most creative conceals his sources the best.
Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after life.
Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the "creative" is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the non-mystic, a war to the death.
Even the best writer has to erase sometimes.
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy -- the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything -- and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
Creativity is a highfalutin' word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.