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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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Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. ↗

— Andy Warhol

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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

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The public wants work which flatters its illusions. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there. ↗

— Ernest Becker

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For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection, his progressive steps, mysterious even to himself, should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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