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  The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Photography, People

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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• Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

  Bertrand Russell

  Confidence, Being Yourself, Fear

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.554, Routledge

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• We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.

  Maya Angelou

  Kids, Years, Justice

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• But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Ifs, Art And Creativity

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• To realize our true creative potential - in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities - we need to think differently about ourselves and towards each other. We must learn to be creative.

  Ken Robinson

  School, Thinking, Organization

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• I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

  Brad Paisley

  Celebration, Celebrate Life, Situation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.

  William Redington Hewlett

  Art, Children, Past

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• The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead. You don't know what new dangers and challenges you'll find. It takes an enormous amount of internal security to begin with the spirit of adventure, discovery, and creativity. Without doubt, you have to leave the comfort zone of base camp and confront an entirely new and unknown wilderness.

  Stephen Covey

  Art, Adventure, Discovery

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.330, Mango Media Inc.

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• I have two questions for you: What do you need to make your creativity shine through? Why do you keep ignoring it?

  Lauren Artress

  Two, Shining, Needs

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• Let me fall. Let me climb. There's a moment where fear and dream must collide.

  Josh Groban

  Dream, Fall, Thinking

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• I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

  Philip Guston

  Morning, Night, Delirium Tremens

  Kim Sichel, Philip Guston (1994). “Philip Guston, 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles”, University of Washington Press

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• More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reading, Brain, Watches

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• Creativity is no big deal.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Bigs, Deals, Big Deal

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• In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Creative, Realization

  Arturo Schwarz, Marcel Duchamp (1997). “The complete works of Marcel Duchamp”, Delano Greenridge Editions

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• Art is a perfectly complete cause.

  Sara Genn

  Art, Causes, Art Is

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• Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers have not to show their paintings or writings before they are finished.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Writing, Artist, Being Ignored

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.106, Shambhala Publications

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  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

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• The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

  Susan Sontag

  Men, Boredom, Creative

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• The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

  Steve Ballmer

  Learning, Technology, Thinking

  "The Astounding Impact of Innovative Technology in the Developing World" by Rev. Larry Hollon, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2013.

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• Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Believe, Responsibility

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

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• Labor gives birth to ideas.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Work, Greatness

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  I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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  You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

  Ansel Adams

  Music, Photography, Art

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• Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

  Stephen King

  Funny, Art, Drinking

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• The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Bible, God, Faith

  Eugene H. Peterson (2009). “Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at Its Best”, p.16, InterVarsity Press

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