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Creativity Quotes

"It’s empowering to be asked to look at what’s possible, not told how to do it."

"I never had to choose a subject—my subject rather chose me."

"One should use common words to say uncommon things"

"Our art is a reflection of our reality"

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

"Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do"

"Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own."

"Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject."

"The value of a great idea lies in the using of it."

"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality"

"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return"

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."

"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time"

"It takes more energy to fix an error than to create a solution from scratch."

"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to envision alternatives"

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