#creativity

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life… ↗

— William S. Burroughs

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The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

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Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast ↗

— Lewis Carroll

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And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#imagination-reading #thinking #imagination

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper... ↗

— Criss Jami

#building-up #compression #creativity #deaf #development

Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them. ↗

— Brandon Mull

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My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there. ↗

— Lisa St Aubin de Terán

#imagination #imagination

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

— Thomas Henry Huxley

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