#creativity

That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway. ↗

— Zoe Whittall

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Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. ↗

— William Plomer

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Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ↗

— Criss Jami

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Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

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Art is the overflow of emotion into action. ↗

— Brian Raif

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She has given me a way out. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

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Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out. ↗

— Chuck Jones

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Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

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You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life ↗

— Woody Allen

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One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more. ↗

— Edward Swift

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