Title Page Quotes for the Creatives

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
- Maya Angelou
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away”
-Picasso
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
- Pablo Picasso
“Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.”
– Pablo Picasso
“The world needs who you were made to be.”
- Joanna Gaines
“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”
- John Irving
Creativity: noun cre·​a·​tiv·​i·​ty The ability to make or otherwise bring into existence something new.
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world”
-Mary Anne Radmacher
"Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought." - Albert Einstein

 

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
– Vincent van Gogh

 

“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.”
– Salvador Dali

“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”
– Leo Burnett

“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.”
– Jack London

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
– Dr. Seuss

“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”
– Charles Mingus

“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”
– Ray Bradbury

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.”
– Steve Jobs

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
– Albert Einstein

“Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.”
– Dorothy Parker

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

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.”
– Bruce Garrabrandt

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”
– John Cleese

 

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

-Edgar Degas