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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.”

“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?”

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

“The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.”

“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.”

“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.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.”