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

“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.”

“Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

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

“For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.”

“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.”

“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.”

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”

“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.”

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

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

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

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

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

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

“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.”

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

“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.”

“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.”

“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.”

“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”

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

“Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”

“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.”