#creativity

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

#inspiration #writing #inspirational

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

#angry #being #creativity #depressed #determine

Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create! ↗

— John Godfrey Saxe

#inspirational #inspirational

Purpose stirs creativity, without purpose you life will be in abnormal use(abuse). ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#enoch #ifeanyi-onuoha #inspirational #purpose #inspirational

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

#creativity #inopportunity #jealousy #need #richelle

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#morality #progress #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

To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong. ↗

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

#creativity #fear-of-failure #life

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance. ↗

— Aberjhani

#creativity #harlem-renaissance #history #horror #humanity