#creativity

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it. ↗

— Paul Graham

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I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a sort of metaphor, but she was not using it as ornamentation. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#language #poetry #age

Creativity takes courage. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. ↗

— Lady Gaga

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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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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

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It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift. ↗

— Justina Chen

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