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“It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.”
― Michelangelo

“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”
― Paul Klee

“Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.”
― Paul Klee

“We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“Privatization will always be a timid ideology as long as architects are allowed to unveil their buildings.”
― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

“Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.”
― Stephanie Vaughn

“I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.”
― Arthur Holitscher

“Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.”
― Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev

“لقد باءت جميع المحاولات لتعريف جوهر الفن تعريفا عقليا بالفشل كمافشلت محاولات تعريف الحياة.”
― علي عزت بيجوفيتش, الإسلام بين الشرق والغرب

“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
― Edith Södergran

“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

“Creativity is an act of defiance.”
― Twyla Tharp

“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds

“The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.”
― Roman Payne

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you.”
― Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

“Creativity is a continual surprise.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order”
― Virginia Woolf

“Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artists who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances.

An artists is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artists takes it personally.

That's why Bob Dylan is an artist, but an anonymous corporate hack who dreams up Pop 40 hits on the other side of the glass is merely a marketer. That's why Tony Hsieh, founder of Zappos, is an artists, while a boiler room of telemarketers is simply a scam.

Tom Peters, corporate gadfly and writer, is an artists, even though his readers are businesspeople. He's an artists because he takes a stand, he takes the work personally, and he doesn't care if someone disagrees. His art is part of him, and he feels compelled to share it with you because it's important, not because he expects you to pay him for it.

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”
― Miles Davis

“It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.”
― John Lennon

“Creative power is mightier than its possessor.”
― C.G. Jung

“Creativity is the residue of time wasted.”
― Albert Einstein

“Enlightenment is at the source of everything. From it, flows our Intuition and our creative energy. It is the delta of the human spirit ~ what we innately seek to return to, as we find ourselves lost in this world.”
― Kim Chestney, The Psychic Workshop: A Complete Program for Fulfilling Your Spiritual Potential

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

“Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.”
― Akira Kurosawa