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Creativity Quotes
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“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.”
— Allen Ginsberg
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“All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.”
— David Sedaris
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“The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.”
— Deepak Chopra
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“Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.”
— Eckhart Tolle
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“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
— Franz Kafka
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“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
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“Art is eternal, for it reveals the inner landscape, which is the soul of man.”
— Martha Graham
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“When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.”
— Dale Archer, MD
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“Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.”
— Tina Turner
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“The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.”
— Alan Alda
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“Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.”
— John Updike
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“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”
— Neil Gaiman
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“Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.”
— Nikky Finney
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“For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. [...] A lot of people never get past this phase; they quit. [...] If you are just starting out or are still in this phase, you gotta know that it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. [...] It’s only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.”
— Ira Glass
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“It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed”
— Vida D. Scudder
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“The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do.”
— Bishop T.D. Jakes
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“We can't take any credit for our talents. It is how we use them that counts.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
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“The most fortunate people on earth are those who have found a calling that's bigger than they are—that moves them and fills their lives with constant passion, aliveness, and growth.”
— Richard Leider
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“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
— Robert Bresson
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