Inspiration And Creativity Quotes

• Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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• We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Moving On, Moving Forward

  "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

  Edgar Degas

  Beauty, Dance, Art

  "The shop-talk of Edgar Degas".

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• A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Inspirational Life, Creativity, Self

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• Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  Chuck Jones

  Art, Creativity, Hands

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• You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.

  Emmet Fox

  Creativity, Levels, Problem

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• Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

  Walt Disney

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Next Move

  "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Art

  "Conversations with Maya Angelou". Book by Jeffrey M. Elliot, 1989.

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Practice, Soul

  "Finding Soul in LA: Five Creative Adventures in the City" by Roxie Sarhangi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2014.

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• Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

  Pablo Picasso

  Fashion, Art, Writing

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

  John Maynard Keynes

  Inspirational, Change, Lying

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes (Preface), 1936.

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

  Edwin Land

  Inspiring, Courage, Failure

  "A Genius and His Magic Camera". Life Magazine, October 27, 1972.

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• Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

  Edwin Land

  Creativity, Creative, Stupidity

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• Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

  Theodore Levitt

  Change, Creativity, Thinking

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• Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Creativity, Bad Ass, Drug

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• Life is about trying things to see if they work.

  Ray Bradbury

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Spiritual, Art

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2919, e-artnow

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  It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

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• An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

  James Whistler

  Tattoo, Art, Creativity

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Writing

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1001, Wordsworth Editions

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• you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

  Stephen King

  Positive, Fear, Cheer Up

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances,
  imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Inspirational, Fear, Business

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• Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

  George Lois

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Creativity

  "'Damn Good Advice' From One Of The Real 'Mad Men'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 19, 2012.

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