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Art is the highest form of hope.
Gerhard Richter
Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
Albert Einstein
Art is the lie that reveals the truth.
Jean Cocteau
Art is the journey of a free soul.
Alev Oguz
The purpose of art is to make the invisible visible.
Paul Klee
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Voltaire
Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.
Albert Einstein
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
Nnamdi Azikiwe
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Creativity is not a talent, it's a way of operating.
John Cleese
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
Theodore Levitt
Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat.
Steve Jobs
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein
Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
Michael Porter
The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations.
Yo-Yo Ma
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin Land
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
Osho
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
Ezra Pound
The greatest risk in life is not taking one.
Unknown
Creativity is the power to act.
Ai Weiwei
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Maimonides
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Julia Cameron
Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.
Antony Starr
Collaboration is like carbonation for fresh ideas. Working together bubbles up ideas you would not have come up with solo, which gets you further faster.
Caroline Ghosn
Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen.
Amit Ray
Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.
Don Tapscott
Collaboration is the new innovation.
John Abele
Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.
Mike Schmoker
Collaboration is the key to creativity and innovation.
Emily Chang
Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
Sir Ken Robinson
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
Pablo Picasso
Creativity is contagious, pass it on.
Albert Einstein
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Pablo Picasso
Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso
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
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 that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
J.K. Rowling
Imagination is the air of mind.
Philip James Bailey
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale
Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.
William Stevens Fielding
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Lewis Carroll
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry Miller
Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.
Patricia A. McKillip
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Stendhal
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
Yo-Yo Ma
Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world.
Brene Brown
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
Osho
Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
Frida Kahlo
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
Malcolm Gladwell
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
Leonardo da Vinci
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Henry David Thoreau
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
Twyla Tharp
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
Steven Pressfield
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
Robert Rauschenberg
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Frida Kahlo
The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
Pablo Casals
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
Jerzy Kosinski
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