#creativity

Creativity is nothing but an intelligent imitation. ↗

— Sandeep Kakkar

#intelligence

Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored.  Writing is a jealous and needy lover. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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Anymore, no one's mind is their own. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life #modernity #originality #life

My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life. ↗

— Miles Davis

#life

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#life #life

History tells creativity is a result of Soul song. ↗

— Aporva Kala

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When I think of normality I think of mediocrity ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#life #life

Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. “There I’m only myself,” she’d said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#art-studio #artist #creativity #dating #glass-girl

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#discipline #muse #writing #art

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal. ↗

— Henry Miller

#creativity #live-life #art