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Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

Robert Grudin
Love, Wise, Creativity
Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.

Robert Grudin
Freedom, Creativity, Reality
Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.

Robert Grudin
Freedom, Creativity, Character
Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.

Robert Grudin
Creativity, Ideas, Rejection
Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree, or make sense. Inspired ideas are less often solutions to old problems than newly discovered or totally reformulated problems - problems 'created' like brilliant works of art.

Robert Grudin
Art, Inspiration, Creativity
Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

Great drama, like the energy implicit in every atom, is eternally around and within us, but liberated only by coincidence, ceremony, creativity, periods reaching completion, pressures reaching the bursting point, and the simple but painful cultivation of awareness.

Robert Grudin
Drama, Creativity, Simple
Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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