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Adrienne Rich on Creativity

“We must use what we have to invent what we desire.”

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Thomas Edison

5 quotes

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

Flaubert

5 quotes

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”

Michelangelo

4 quotes

“Critique by creating.”

Miles Davis

4 quotes

“Don't play what's there play what's not there.”

Deepak Chopra

4 quotes

“If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative m...”

Wallace Stevens

4 quotes

“For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /Nothing that is not there and the nothing th...”

Linus Pauling

4 quotes

“You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.”

Marianne Williamson

3 quotes

“...there are four rules for miraculous work creation: Be positive. Send love. Have fun. Kick ass. Amen.”

Vincent van Gogh

3 quotes

“Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.”

Émile Zola

3 quotes

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”

Sylvia Plath

3 quotes

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”

Picasso

3 quotes

“God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on t...”

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