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I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

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That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway. ↗

— Zoe Whittall

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Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective. ↗

— Criss Jami

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Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. ↗

— William Plomer

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Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

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Art is the overflow of emotion into action. ↗

— Brian Raif

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What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds? ↗

— Robert Hughes

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She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things. ↗

— Diana Athill

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The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species. ↗

— Machado de Assis

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There is new research showing that our creative potential increases with age. Our creativity is a product of our inner and outer experience, and as we get older, we have all kinds of experience to draw on. Also, research tells us that creativity brings energy, vitality and good health. ↗

— Sandra A. Cusack

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