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You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#creativity #art

He lives with his creativity in high gear. ↗

— John Travolta

#gear #high #his #lives

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it! ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows ↗

— Mati Klarwein

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She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit. ↗

— Stephanie Kallos

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He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death. ↗

— Irving Stone

#creation #creativity #art

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#death #life #love #tragedy #art

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else. ↗

— Albert Camus

#art #creating #flowers #marcel-proust #wallpaper

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised ↗

— James Thurber

#creativity #mankind #art