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Creativity Quotes
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I knew a wonderful teacher once - a tutor. He tutored my stepsons and my elder daughter. He said to me, "Always start where the energy is." John Cleese
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun." Pablo Picasso
"The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost." Nikola Tesla
"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected." William Plomer
"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted." Henri Matisse
"When Alexander The Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: "Only stand out of my light." Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light." John Gardner
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." Buckminster Fuller
"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self." Erich Fromm
"Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order." Virginia Woolf
"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their
authenticity" Abraham Lincoln
"Don't play what's there, play what's not there." Miles Davis
"All profoundly original art looks ugly at first." Clement Greenberg
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert Einstein
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come." Isaac Newton
"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head almost nothing." Marc Chagall
"Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open." Thomas Dewar
"Creativity is contagious. Pass it on." Albert Einstein
"It takes courage to be creative; just as soon as you have a new idea you are in a minority of one." Paul Torrance
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." Les Brown
“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.” Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!" Dr. Seuss
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw
"You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born…" Rainer Maria Rilke
"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good things." Edgar Degas
"Throw open your window and let the scenery of clouds and sky enter your room."
"Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light." Unknown
“...the creative person cannot simply be driven, he must be drawn to his work by visions, hopes, joy of discovery, love of truth, and sensuous pleasure in the creative activity itself.” Howard Gruber
"Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony of proportion is rapidly seen." Leonardo da Vinci
"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact." William Shakespeare
"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable colour to every object; beware of this stumbling block." Paul Gauguin
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." Herman Melville
"Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results." Robert Toth
"I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works." Andy Kaufman
"Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention." Plato
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the best of men." Edward Lear
"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend." Bruce Lee
“I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How an elephant got in my pyjamas I just can’t imagine.” Groucho Marx
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." Unknown
"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each." Plato
"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist
free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."
JFK
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." Vincent Van Gogh
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