Releasing the Inner Creative

"If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh

"True creativity often starts where language ends." - Arthur Koestler

"Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is." - Mason Cooley

"All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate." - Julio Cortazar

"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way." - Edward de Bono

"To succeed in any field, our enthusiasm-eyes must sparkle and our enthusiasm-hearts must dance." - Sri Chinmoy

"When I am....completely myself, entirely alone...or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them." - Wolf Amadeus Mozart

"I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most." - C. Joybell C.

"Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not- because the thing they are good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized." - Sir Ken Robinson

"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney

"Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we don't know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted." - George Kneller

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have." - Maya Angelou

"To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it." - Osho

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." - Lao Tzu

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

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." - Patanjali

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