Creativity
"If you hear a voice within you say, "You cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent van Gogh
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." – Joseph Chilton Pearce
"When asked what he was trying to accomplish with his work, Pablo Picasso responded, "I am learning to paint like I could when I was five years old."
"Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness – I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness." – Aaron Copland
"Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance." – M.C. Richards
"Why should we all use our creative power? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money." – Brenda Ueland
"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen." – Minor White
"The act of making art exposes a society to itself. Art brings things to light. It illuminates us… It casts a beam into the heart of our own darkness and says, ‘See?’" – Julia Cameron
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost." – Martha Graham
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