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Creativity

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
- Brian W. Aldiss

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated,
more destructive and more constructive, a lot madder and a lot saner,
than the average person.
- Frank Barron

The function of the creative artist consists of making laws,
not in following laws already made.
- Ferruccio Busoni

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union;
the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.
- Julia Cameron

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
- Frank Capra

When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.
- Coco Chanel

There is something about the creative process...
which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes
about it, and you try to explain, but you're never really
saying what happened... it's a sort of happy accident.
- Betty Comden

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities
and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.
- Max Ernst

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
- Anna Freud

Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.
- Peter Koestenbaum

Creativity without implementation is irresponsibility.
- Ted Leavitt

You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate
obstacles and smooth the way for it.
- Kimon Nicolaides

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