“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.“ Albert Einstein
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Letting Go – Turner
“Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go – purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.” Tina Turner
Creative Genius – James
“Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.” William James
The Creative Process – Woolf
“It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more […]
The Creative Power – Woolf
“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.” Virginia Woolf
The Essence of Art – Adorno
“A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.” Theodore Adorno
Spontaneity and Limitations – May
“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.” Rollo May
The Meaning of Life – Bradbury
“Life is ‘trying things to see if they work.’” Ray Bradbury
Children and Creativity – Picasso
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Pablo Picasso
Chaos and Creativity – Nietzche
“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.” Nietzche
