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quotes on art, creativity & life |
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| “Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.” ― Osho |
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| "The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." —Carl Jung |
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| “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” ― Roy T. Bennett |
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| "The most important conversation is the conversation you have with yourself each day." ―James Clear |
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| “Art can Unleash Your Imagination, Ignite Your Creativity & Inspire the World." ― Gene Sasse |
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| “One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years – learning, unlearning, success, failure, dreaming, thinking, experience, all this – then the moment of creation, the focusing of all into the moment. So I can make ‘without thought,’ fifteen carefully considered negatives, one every fifteen minutes, given material with as many possibilities. But there is all the eyes have seen in this life to influence me.” – Edward Weston |
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| “Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.” — Erik Adigard |
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| “Creating artwork allows your mind to be in a safe place while it contemplates the tougher issues you are dealing with. One can use the tools of brush, paint, pastels, crayons etc to expose and even for a short time color those issues in a different light.” ― George E. Miller |
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| “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” ― Roy T. Bennett |
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| “The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity. He takes snapshots, makes notes and records impressions on tablecloths or newspapers, on backs of envelopes or matchbooks. Why one thing and not another is part of the mystery, but he is omnivorous.” ― Paul Rand |
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| “It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation and they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.” ― Garth Stein |
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| "In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well-stocked fish pond… If we don’t give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked…As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them — to restock the trout pond, so to speak." —Julia Cameron |
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| "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." — Ayn Rand |
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| “Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.” ― Charlotte Eriksson |
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| “We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.” ― C. JoyBell |
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| “Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.” ― Pablo Picasso |
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| “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ― T.S. Eliot |
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| "It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things that stand out the most are the paradoxes of the creative self ... Imaginative people have messier minds." ― Scott Barry Kaufman |
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| “As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you.” ― Dieter F. Uchtdorf |
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| “Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso |
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| “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.” ― Albert Einstein |
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| "Art should reflect the mind of the artist and the hand of the Creator." ―Randall Gutting |
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| The Sasse Museum of Art is a gathering place to celebrate the inspiring and transformative power of arts and culture and to expand our understanding of ourselves and the world. |
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