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• One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

  Harvey Mackay

  Fire, Creative, Way

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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.

  Virginia Woolf

  Determination, Book, Writing

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.37, HMH

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• The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Art, Break, Shackles

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• The legs are the wheels of creativity.

  Albert Einstein

  Acting, Legs, Wheels

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• The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Creative, Solitude, Important

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• Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.

  Eric Maisel

  Humanity, Eternity

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Thinking, Ideas, Tone

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• Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Selfish, Bad Ass

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.165, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Creative, Add

  Dalia Judovitz, Marcel Duchamp (2010). “Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company”, p.56, U of Minnesota Press

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• Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

  Julia Cameron

  Life, Gestation Period, Darkness

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.248, Souvenir Press

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• Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

  Charles H. Brower

  People, Conformity, Problem

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• Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

  Jean Houston

  Real, Doors, Keys

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• If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Hurt, Writing

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• Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things . . . Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Attitude, Creative

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• The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion.

  Arthur Fry

  Creative, Mind, Vision

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• The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

  Julia Cameron

  Letting Go, Creative, Simple Life

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Nov 02, 2015

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• The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

  John W. Gardner

  Imagination, Creative, Intuition

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• We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Beautiful, Faith

  Kurt Vonnegut (2016). “If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By”, p.131, RosettaBooks

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• Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Design

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• Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.

  Mae Jemison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

  Abraham Maslow

  Children, Birth, Given

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• Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being.

  Silvano Arieti

  Ego, Doe, Talent

  Silvano Arieti (1976). “Creativity: The Magic Synthesis”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.

  Robert Toth

  Imagination, Mind, Depth

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• The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

  Sholem Asch

  Spiritual, Men, May

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