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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. - Erich Fromm

The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas. - Linus Pauling

The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity. -Margaret J. Wheatley

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. -Rita Mae Brown

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. -William Faulkner

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. -Fran Lebowitz

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. -John Anthony Ciardi (I just really liked this one)

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. -Theodore Geisel (Hence, the “SPAM” on my blog)

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. -James D. Finley

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. -Frank Barron, Think, November-December 1962

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. -Norman Podhoretz (But how?)

Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..." And then do it. -Duane Michals, "More Joy of Photography"