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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.Source: Against Interpretation,...
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.Source: On Photography, The...
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion of...
What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something...
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his...
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great...
When the bright angel [of creativity] dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven...
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in...
To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and...
Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if...
Failure is impossible.Source: In Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?, by Carrie Chapman...
North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to...
The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to...
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten...
My definition [of a philosopher] is a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine...
Life is too short for a long story.Source: Letter, 19 Jul 1759; in Selected...
I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.Source: Starting from...
The sooner every party breaks up the better.Source: Emma, Ch. 25-- Jane...
The only 'ism' Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.Source: In Webster's Electronic...
The writer is either a practising recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...
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