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

“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.”

“All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality .”

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

“The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world we catch a glimpse of another world.”

“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.”

“The traditional model for a company like Coca-Cola is to hire one big advertising agency and essentially outsource all of its creativity in that area. But Coca-Cola does not do it that way. It knows how to manage creative people and creative teams and it has been quite adept at building a network that includes the Creative Artists Agency in Hollywood, which is a talent agency.”

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

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

“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.”

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

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

“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”

“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.”