Creativity

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
John Constable, painter (1776-1837)

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Rodin

Creativity is a struggle between vitality and form.
Rollo May

Lines and colors are only the symbols of hidden realities. Our eyes plunge beneath the surface to the meaning of things and when afterward we reproduce the form, we endow it with the spiritual meaning which it covers.
Rodin

I am always doing what I cannot do in order to learn how to do it.
Vincent van Gogh

The music I have written is nothing compared to the music I have heard.
Beethoven

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones of genius.
David T. Kearns

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the unihibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
Norman Podhoretz

I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possesion; but to please the child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings it's own reward.
L. Frank Baum

Perfectionism is spelled P-A-R-A-L-Y-S-I-S.
Winston Churchill

Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Picasso

An artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.
Paul Robeson's tombstone (1898-1976)

Whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto, it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
George Washington

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
Louis Nizer, lawyer (1902-1994)

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