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“Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.”

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Book:The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

“creative thought seems prone to flower in symbols before it ripens to fruit.”

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Author:Maude Meagher

“True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expectations, from the springtime hedge which seems already too full, while the purely formal imitation of varietyis but void and uniformity, that is, that which is most opposed to variety.”

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Author:Marcel Proust

“Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.”

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Author:Samuel Butler

“Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.”

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Author:Herbert Simon

“Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!”

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Book:Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking

Source: Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking

“One of the biggest mistakes leaders make is to embrace the idea of spurring creativity by letting hundreds of flowers bloom. I've never seen that lead to anything other than cynicism and hundreds of dead flowers.”

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Author:Scott D. Anthony

“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”

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Author:A. A. Milne

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

Source: Chagall at the Met

“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.”

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Book:Everyday Use

Source: Everyday Use

“I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force - a wild pain and decay - also accompanies everything.”