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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude… --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. --John Updike

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. --Anna Freud

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird--that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace--making the complicated simple, awesomely simple--that's creativity. --Charles Mingus

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

Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. --William James

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born. --Konstantin Stanislavsky

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

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. --Arthur Koestler

The world is but a canvas to the imagination. --Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. --Buckminster Fuller

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. --Oscar Levant

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. --Nietzsche