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“If I am not being creative, I get creative with ways to destroy myself.”
― Gay Walley, The Erotic Fire of the Unattainable: Aphorisms on Love, Art and the Vicissitudes of Life

“The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.”
― Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.” (p.232)”
― Torkom Saraydarian, The Solar Angel

“Think of those fingers as abilities. A creative person may write, paint, sculpt, or think up math formulae;
he or she might dance or sing or play a musical instrument. Those are the fingers, but creativity is the hand that gives them life.
& just as all hands are basically the same - form follows function - all creative people are the same once you get down to the place where the fingers join.”
― Stephen King

“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“In order to live a creative life, we must give up the fear of being
wrong.”
― Satyen Raja

“Real intelligence is a creative use of knowledge, not merely an accumulation of facts. The slow thinker who can finally come up with an idea of his own is more important to the world than a walking encyclopedia who hasn’t learned how to use this information productively.”
― Susan Winebrenner

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun”
― Mary Lou Cook

“For every dilemma, find at least three or four possible solutions. The creative process leads to better results.”
― Marilyn Suttle, Who's Your Gladys?: How to Turn Even the Most Difficult Customer into Your Biggest Fan

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.”
― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

“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

“Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.”
― David Brin, Brightness Reef

“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.”
― Robert Frost