“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
― Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
― Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
“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.”
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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.”
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“Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.”
― Brightness Reef
― Brightness Reef
“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
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