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“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart's passion blazes more brightly and...”
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
“Doors are for people with no imagination.”
“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
“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 i...”
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideati...”
“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whet...”
“You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.”
“If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.”
“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. ”
“Creativity is as important as literacy”
“Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!”
“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of ...”
“But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a ...”
“Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: navet, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are ...”
