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Pablo Picasso. Violin. 1912. Color paper. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia. (Image courtesy of Olga's Gallery).

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Library of Creativity Development: Quotations

"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." ~Charles Mingus

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." ~Albert Einstein

"The 'silly' question is the first intimation of some totally new development." ~Alfred North Whitehead

"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results..... I’ve found five thousand ways how not to make a light bulb." ~Thomas A. Edison

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best." ~Duke Ellington

"To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted." ~George Kneller

"Man can alter his life by altering his thinking."  ~William James

"Creators love creations before they exist."  ~Robert Fritz

"Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony of proportion is rapidly seen." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity." ~Ludwig Wittgenstein

"We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance." ~Benjamin Disraeli

"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong."~Joseph Chilton Pearce

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas...If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." ~Howard Aitken

"It is amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions."~Charles Kettering US Inventor

"We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work." ~Jack Welch

"All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow." ~Grant Wood

"Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art."  ~Tom Stoppard

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."  ~Plato (427 BC-348)

"Art and science have their meeting point in method."  ~Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision."  ~Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970)

"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."  ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)

"A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong." ~George Orson Welles

"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before." ~Edith Warton

"Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist." ~ Thomas Disch

"Someone once said that for every problem there is a solution that is simple, attractive...and wrong." ~Arthur C Clarke.

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