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Why are the thoughts and words of other creative people so necessary to those who create? Why do we find quotes and quotations so supportive and inspiring? The answer can only be that creative spirits know what it is like to be original and creative because they are intimately acquainted with the creative process and how creativity is usually received by the general population as well as by the peers in one’s chosen field. Kindred creative spirits know the drill. They can say. “You go, girl”, like no other. They’ve been there and back again, more than once. Here are some words, some quotes about creating and using your creativity, that I’ve found useful and inspiring as I, and the clients who work with me, go about daily life creating, innovating and originating. These words, these creativity quotations, have found themselves in pockets, taped to the wall, on post-it notes everywhere and on the quotation cards I make for and give to my clients and workshop attendees. Where will the words you chose be placed? How will you use them? Which ones will you remember and treasure? Some of the words on this page are inspiration, some are challenge, others, advice and still more are beliefs or a code of living. At any rate, the words, and the people who said them, are your very own personal inspiration group. Visit them often. Each time you are here the words you’ve read once before may have a new meaning, provide you with a new idea or be a sense of inspiration or support for you. Enjoy your visit. Lynne Azpeitia, M.A., Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist AAMFT Approved Supervisor
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Great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions and instabilities. And it always balances them. Anais Niin
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught. Yeats Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. Earl Nightingale Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. Carl Schurz You have a masterpiece inside you, too, you know. One unlike any that
has ever been created, or ever will be. And remember: If you go to your
grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one
else can paint it. Only you. Gordon MacKenzie I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. Albert Einstein I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. Pablo Picasso Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did
you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than
a century ago? Bernice Fitz-Gibbon All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of
our creative imagination. Ruth Ross Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. Anna Freud Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. Dag Hammarskjold Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five. Arthur Koestler Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. James Russell Lowell I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Alan Watts If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea. Richard Hofstadter Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them." Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly. Kingman Brewster Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding. Francois La Rochefoucauld There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. Ralph Waldo Emerson The impossible is often untried. Jim Goodwin Now and then it is good to pause in the pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Anonymous I have accepted fear as a part of my life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says, turn back. Erica Jong Life is a persistent teacher... it will keep repeating the lesson, until we learn. Unknown
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