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

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

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

“Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.”

“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”

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

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

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”

“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”

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

“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.”

“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.”

“Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”