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Scott Adams (top)
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams


Elayne Boosler (top)
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
- Elayne Boosler


Cecil B. DeMille (top)
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
- Cecil B. DeMille


Albert Einstein (top)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein


Carl G. Jung (top)
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
- Carl G. Jung


Stella Terrill Mann (top)
Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens.
- Stella Terrill Mann


Stephen Nachmanovitch (top)
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
- Stephen Nachmanovitch
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
- Stephen Nachmanovitch
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
- Stephen Nachmanovitch


Joseph Chilton Pearce (top)
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce


Pablo Picasso (top)
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
- Pablo Picasso


Brenda Ueland (top)
So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
- Brenda Ueland