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“Name it... and if you can dream it... you can achieve it.”

“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.”

“If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won’t join gangs. My life since living the gang and drugs has been directed to making positive what it means to be Chicano, human, man, woman, and on how to draw out the imagination and creativity that all people have.”

“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.”

“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”

“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”

“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.”

“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.”

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“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.”

“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

“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.”

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.”

“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”