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“The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.”
“You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your o...”
“I've never believed that they're separate. Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist. Michelangelo knew a tremendous amount about how to cut stone at the quarry. The finest dozen c...”
“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”
“One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.”
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.”
“You can have anything you want so long as you realise that you can't have everything you want.”
“Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.”
“The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.”
“Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.”
“If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other ...”
“I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative ac...”
“Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?”
“We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.”
“We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.”
“I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.”
“You cannot reconcile creativeness with technical achievement. You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, an...”
“Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.”
“Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.”
“Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.”
