#creative act

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act. ↗

— Charles Eames

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So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

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My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

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The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

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