A collection of quotes to inspire and make you think!

• “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
  ~Pablo Picasso

• “The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.”
  ~Francis Bacon

• “Do, or do not. There is no try.”
  ~Yoda

• “An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
  ~Erich Fromm

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

• “Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach – how you look at things…. Not everybody can be a painter – and there is no need also. If everybody is a painter the world will be very ugly; it will be difficult to live! And not everybody can be a dancer, and there is no need. But everybody can be creative. Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative. If you have something growing out of it within you, if it gives you growth, it is spiritual, it is creative, it is divine. You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I dont know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it – whatsoever it is!”
  ~Osho

• “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
  ~Erich Fromm

• “Creativity takes courage.”
  ~Henri Matisse

• “Everyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.”
  ~Lichtenberg

• “Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
  ~Beatrix Potter

• “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
  ~Albert Einstein

• “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
  ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• “There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.”
  ~Henri Matisse

• “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

• “We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own and other’s people’s models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.”
  ~Shakti Gawain