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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please. ↗

— Hugh MacLeod

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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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