#creativity

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen. ↗

— Thomas Henry Huxley

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The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the excitement of this thing that you’re experiencing; when you are fully alive. ↗

— Ken Robinson

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...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

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Reality is only for people with no imagination. ↗

— Gavin Freeman

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They spell-caught the sounds of cat paws, the breath of fish, the spittle of birds, the hairs of a woman's beard, and the roots of a mountain, and spun them around the sinews of a bear. That made a bond that looked as fine as a ribbon of silk, but, since it was made of things not in this world, it was so strong nothing in the world could break it. ↗

— Ingri d'Aulaire

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Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked. ↗

— Orna Ross

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Anything creative requires a bit of acting,and filling in blanks with imagination. ↗

— Christina Westover

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Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

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You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own. ↗

— Hugh MacLeod

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When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued. ↗

— Julia Margaret Cameron

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