Mcniff Quotes

#1. Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet they can't all be Trotskyites and traitors.

Lavrentiy Beria

#2. Words suck. I mean, every thing has been said. I can't remember the last real interesting conversation I've had in a long time. Words aren't as important as the energy derived from music, especially live.

Kurt Cobain

#3. McNiff, S. (1992) Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of

Debra Kalmanowitz

#4. A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.

Shaun McNiff

#5. Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?

Ann Demeulemeester

#6. Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.

Shaun McNiff

#7. One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#8. Creativity is a force moving through us, and only through practice do we learn how to cooperate with it. The 'process' is like a muscle. It needs to be exercised in order to function effortlessly.

Shaun McNiff

#9. Right mothering meets the
child's need.

Focusing on what the child should
not be draws resistant energy. Pointing
out what the child should be feeds
self-hatred and struggle.

Vimala McClure

#10. Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.

Shaun McNiff

#11. Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit.

Shaun McNiff

#12. It, (creativity) requires an inclination to step into the unknown, as well as the ability to persist when
there is no end in sight.

Shaun McNiff

#13. I can see exactly what not to do at the moment. No doubt through the usual process of elimination I'll arrive at my favourite strategy of total paralysis.

Don Paterson

#14. Creativity can be defined as an original act of imagination that brings something into existence. It is a desire and innate drive to make new connections between things, to give form, and to transform.

Shaun McNiff

#15. Kugel wondered if in these days of the Internet you would even need a Miep Gies anymore, if you could make it through a genocide these days with just a smartphone and a credit card, and he was hopeful that in the event of another Holocaust, he would have some sort of broadband Internet access.

Shalom Auslander

#16. Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

Honore De Balzac

#17. Art is an articulator of the soul's uncensored purpose and deepest will.

Shaun McNiff

#18. Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded.

Shaun McNiff

#19. We can only learn about creativity through our own experience of it.

Shaun McNiff

#20. Having a passive personality, is a soft way to live a dead life.

Omar EL KADMIRI

#21. Creativity cannot flourish and reach its deepest potential without the participation of its demons as well as its angels.

Shaun McNiff

#22. No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.

Thomas Adams