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  • #1
    Henri Matisse
    “Creativity takes courage. ”
    Henri Matisse

  • #2
    Howard Thurman
    “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
    Howard Thurman

  • #3
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    Pablo Picasso
    “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #6
    Mikhail Bakunin
    “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”
    Mikhail Bakunin

  • #7
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

  • #8
    Sylvia Plath
    “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #9
    Beatrix Potter
    “Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
    Beatrix Potter

  • #10
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “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 way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water

  • #11
    Hugh MacLeod
    “Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.”
    Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

  • #12
    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

  • #13
    Twyla Tharp
    “Creativity is an act of defiance.”
    Twyla Tharp

  • #14
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #15
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #16
    Walter M. Miller Jr.
    “You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
    Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

  • #17
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #18
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #19
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #21
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #22
    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #23
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #24
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #25
    Brian Andreas
    “There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.”
    Brian Andreas, Story People

  • #26
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    Sarah Williams

  • #28
    Charles Scott Sherrington
    “The brain is... an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern, though never an abiding one.”
    Charles Sherrington

  • #29
    Susan      Fletcher
    “We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does it not?”
    Susan Fletcher

  • #30
    T.S. Eliot
    “Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #31
    Anaïs Nin
    “All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.”
    Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944



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