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Inspirations

Famous Quotes about Creativity

 

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Maya Angelou​

 

“Creativity is just about connecting things.” Steve Jobs

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“Creativity takes courage.” Henri Matisse

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“Rule of art: Can’t kills creativity!” Camille Paglia

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“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.” Yo-Yo Ma

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“Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” Bill Moyers

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“Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.” Twyla Tharp

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“Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.” Lisa Randall, a Harvard physicist

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“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.” Albert Einstein

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“A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a 100 times; if it has come to you over a new route, by a new and express train of associations." Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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"When you can do a common thing in an uncommon way; you will command the attention of the world." George Washington Carver

 

“I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.” Vera Wang

 

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. E. E. Cummings

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"If you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise… because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts…” — A call to embrace life’s energy and spontaneity as the essence of creativity" Mel Brooks


"The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories." Diane Arbus

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"Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for." Aaron Sorkin

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A mixed bag of inspirations

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