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  • #91
    Marcel Duchamp
    “I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
    Marcel Duchamp

  • #92
    C.E.M. Joad
    “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
    C.E.M. Joad

  • #93
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #94
    “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
    Henry Thomas Buckle

  • #95
    Henri Matisse
    “Creativity takes courage. ”
    Henri Matisse

  • #96
    Albert Einstein
    “I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
    Albert Einstein

  • #97
    Pablo Picasso
    “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #98
    Oscar Wilde
    “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #99
    Sylvia Plath
    “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #100
    Pablo Picasso
    “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #101
    Osho
    “To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
    Osho

  • #102
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #103
    Pablo Picasso
    “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #104
    Steve Jobs
    “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #105
    Ken Robinson
    “If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
    Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

  • #106
    Pearl S. Buck
    “The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that
    without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
    Pearl S. Buck

  • #107
    Mikhail Bakunin
    “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
    Mikhail Bakunin

  • #108
    Brené Brown
    “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”
    Brene Brown

  • #109
    Brenda Ueland
    “Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.”
    Brenda Ueland

  • #110
    Scott Adams
    “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
    Scott Adams

  • #111
    Stella Adler
    “life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”
    Stella Adler

  • #112
    Erich Fromm
    “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
    Erich Fromm

  • #113
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #114
    Albert Einstein
    “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #115
  • #116
    William S. Burroughs
    “The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible”
    William S. Burroughs

  • #117
    Sophia Loren
    “There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”
    Sophia Loren

  • #118
    Gustave Flaubert
    “I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #119
    Jacob Bronowski
    “It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”
    Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man

  • #120
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche



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