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• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Clever, Hipster

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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• Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Life, Being Alone, Writing

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• I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Spiritual, Believe, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

  George Washington Carver

  Courage, Creative, Mind

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1987). “George Washington Carver in his own words”

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• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

  Jodie Foster

  Art, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

  Julia Cameron

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jun 13, 2012

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

  Robert Henri

  Inspiring, Art, New Beginnings

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• There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

  Edward de Bono

  Imagination, Creative, Innovation

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• If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

  Paul Robeson

  Art, Should, Shows

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• What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.

  Sylvia Browne

  Weed, Fear, Rip

  Sylvia Browne (2009). “Soul’s Perfection (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.271, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

  David Byrne

  Artist, Creative, Fixed

  "Therapy is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?". The Guardian Friday interview, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2001.

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• The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

  Paul Cezanne

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook". Book by Dorothy Kalins and Michael Anthony (p.221), www.esquire.com. 2013.

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• It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

  Salvador Dali

  Design, Creative, Taste

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• I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

  Rita Dove

  Believe, Mean, People

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• You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Artist, Play

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• A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

  Mary Garden

  Moving, Anger, Emotion

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• Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.

  Bill Gates

  People, Creative, Priorities

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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• Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Radio, Way

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• Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Courage, Patriotic

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

  Ben Kingsley

  Creative, Trying, Blank

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• The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are limited. We create decisive moments by devoting our time and attention to specific things. This is the greatest gift we can give anyone or anything - pieces of our life.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Giving, Pieces, Attention

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