"Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Donâ€™t let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said, â€œhonest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.â€ Good to rememberâ€¦"

-- Elif Safak

#Appreciation Quotes #Art Quotes #Creativity Quotes

“Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival. Over time, the richer the cultural context in terms of providing multiple experimentation and creative competition, the more likely the successful survival of the society”
“How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.”
“The ambitious man has never found his true vocation...”
“Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance on earth, there is a cloud, an almost immobile air. The plants already breathe, while we still ask ourselves how to speak to each other, without taking breath away from them.”

Source : Luce Irigaray (2000). “To be two”, Athlone Press
“I've now learned how to do it, I can write anywhere. I'm the type of person that will get a random idea and then I'll have to write it down and then continue on it. It can be anywhere. It doesn't have to be a set place.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.”
“If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.”

Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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