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“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

“When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.”

“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

“For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.”

“Life is about trying things to see if they work.”

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.”

“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.”

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.”

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.”

“You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.”

“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”