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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
Shunryu
Suzuki
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
Charles
Caleb Colton
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish to the crowd.
...I Ching
You can't depend on your judgment when
your imagination is out of focus.
John
F. Kennedy
True imagination is not moving the blocks of our reality
from one spot to another, rather it is the pouring forth of an entirely new
reality according to the wellspring of the dreams within our hearts.
Robert Tennyson Stevens
When you think about it, most people
really don't want to be creative - it's dangerous and uncomfortable - like
being the passenger in a car driven by a maniac.
Randall
Anway
Creativity: a type of learning process
where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur
Koestler
I am enough of an artist to draw freely
upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
Albert
Einstein
When I began to draw and paint, I did not say to myself,
"Behold Kahlil Gibran. There are ahead of you so many ways to art: The
classic, the modern, the symbolistic, the impressionistic, and others. Choose
for yourself one of them." I did nothing of the sort. I simply found
my pen and brush, quite of themselves, recording symbols of my thoughts, emotions,
and fancies. Some think the business of art to be a mere imitation of nature.
But Nature is far too great and too subtle to be successfully imitated. No
artist can ever reproduce even the least of Nature's surpassing creations
and miracles. Besides, what profit is there in imitationg Nature when she
is so open and so accessible to all who see and hear? The business of art
is rather to understand Nature and to reveal her meanings to those unable
to understand. It is to convey the soul of a tree rather than to produce a
fruitful likeness of the tree. It is to reveal the conscience of the sea,
not to portray so many foaming waves or so much blue water. The mission of
art is to bring out the unfamiliar from the most familiar.
Kahlil
Gibran
mystic, poet and artist
(1883-1931)
If there were two men alike, the world
would not be big enough to contain them.
Look at every thing as though you were seeing it for the
first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith
Art is a step in the known toward the
unknown.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
To create is to boggle the mind and alter the mood. Once
the urge has surged, it maintains its own momentum. We may go along for the
ride, but when we attempt to steer the course, the momentum dies.
Sue
Atchley Ebaugh
A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its
original dimensions.
Oliver
Wendell Holmes
Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the
simple.
C.W.
Ceran
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset—more than power or influence or money.
Unknown
When you are creating something, especially if you are forging new ground by moving beyond the ingrained accepted reality of the moment - it can be a very hard road to travel. Many show up to rail against you. Where is the scientific proof they ask? But they don't really want it, because they have no intention of changing their views. They just want to throw rocks in your path. That happens, but each time it does, many, many more show up to support.
Rhio
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B.
White
What is writing? Distilling your thoughts in the still of your mind and collecting their essence. It doesn't need any fancy devices -- a five-cent pencil works just as well as a $50 gold-tipped 'writing instrument'. A beach cottage might not yield a writer any loftier fruits than a tiny room, with a window perhaps, to stare out and do nothing. Ah! What could be easier... or more difficult?
Anu
If, at first, an idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it.
Albert
Einstein
Before
you can do something that you've never done,
you have to be able to imagine it is possible.
Jean
Shinoda Bolen
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert
Frost
poet
(1874-1963)
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
Irish-born British playwright, Nobel Prize winner
Our
imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles
Franklin Kettering
American electrical engineer and manufacturer
Every
child is an artist.
The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo
Picasso
A painting is a poem without words.
Kung-Fu-Tse
By
logic and reason we die hourly. By imagination we live.
William
Butler Yeats
A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.
Paul
Gardner, painter
If
you don't execute your ideas, they die.
Roger
von Oech
author and consultant
A
pattern that others made may prevail in the world...
however, following THAT thread we may miss OUR OWN design!
unknown
Easy reading is damned hard writing.
Nathaniel
Hawthorne, writer
(1804-1864)
Words
are things; and a small drop of ink
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Lord
Byron
poet
(1788-1824)
Your imagination is your
preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert
Einstein
You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.
R.K.
Narayan
novelist
(1906-2001)
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
Ludwig
Van Beethoven,
composer
(1770-1827)
The pain of a new idea is one of the greatest pains in human nature...
Your favorite notion may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill founded. And your
favorite foods may be the root cause of your greatest pains! It's a fact of
life that people find it much easier to believe a lie they've heard a thousand
times than a fact they've never heard before.
Daniel
P. Reid
The Tao of Health
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thiking.
Albert
Einstein
(1879-1955)
Creative
minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna
Freud
Austrian psychoanalyst
(1895-1982)
What is art but a way of seeing?
Thomas
Berger
writer
(1924- )
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. 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.
Edward
de Bono
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study.
Francis
Bacon
Essays
Everything that people create is a projection of what's inside them.
Stuart
Lichtman
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
John
W. Foster
clergyman
(1770-1843)
A human being is a thinking center, capable of original thought. If a person can communicate his thought to original thinking substance, he can cause the creation, or formation, of the thing he thinks about.
Wallace
D. Wattles
The Science of Getting Rich
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott
Adams
cartoonist
(1957- )
Ability
is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou
Holtz
We
are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make our world.
Gautama
Buddha
Words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel
Johnson
lexicographer, essayist, poet, critic
(1709-1784)
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert
Einstein
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
G.K.
Chesterton
essayist and novelist
(1874-1936)
In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm, in the real world, all rests on perseverance.
Goethe
I
saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo
Buonarroti
sculptor, painter, architect, and poet
(1475-1564)
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
W.
Somerset Maugham
writer
(1874-1965)
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr.
US Supreme Court Justice
(1841-1935)
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
Charles
Peguy
poet and essayist
(1873-1914)
But
words are things, a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Lord
Byron
poet
(1788-1824)
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
writer
(1804-1864)
The best writing is rewriting.
E.B.
White
writer
(1899-1985)
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
William
Faulkner
(1897-1962)
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Miles
Davis
(1926-1991)
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
J.D.
Salinger,
writer (1919- )
Creativity is allowing to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott
Adams
If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.
Barry
Jones, politician, author
(1932- )
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