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Many are the ways and wonders of creativity!
Many are the paths to Lit & Lovin' it!
Rejoice in the creative spirit you share with these artists in all fields, from the present and the past, as they offer inspiration, how-to suggestions, and a few warnings.

If for any given time only a certain sort of work resonates with life, then that is the work you need to be doing in that moment. If you try to do some other work, you will miss your moment.
...................................... David Bayles and Ted Orland

The art of being impossible consists of persuading people that your unfailing capacity in one respect is inseparable from your total unreliability in all other respects.
................................................... Stephen Spender

I've learned from showing my work and life that most people have creative urges and I guess my real job as an artist is to move people to be creative.
................................................... David Hinnebusch

A creative person has to overcome the fear of being in error, of being laughed at, of public opinion. One who wants to be creative has to be courageous enough to be a fool, because all daring in the beginning is foolish.
..................................... ... Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

I don't think it's good to be precocious in high school, because the very chaps who were aren't writing any more.
....................................................... Paddy Chayefsky

One has to have the patience and the strength to resist the immediate satisfaction of false food - false work.
....................................................................... Rod Steiger.

The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.
......................................... David Bayles and Ted Orland

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.
................................................................. Rudolf Flesch

Details are all that matters; God dwells there, and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.
......................................................... Stephen Jay Gould

If you take your time seriously, if you understand that time cannot be replaced, you will have taken one of the most important steps of all toward a successful life.
......................................................................... ... Karl Hess

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
.......................................... Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
............................................................ Cynthia Heimel

Effective searching procedures become, when the search-space is sufficiently large, indistinguishable from true creativity. ..........................................................Richard Dawkins

Creativity always involves an interplay between id and ego, strange and familiar, remote and proximate, universal and particular, abstract and concrete.
................................................................Sam Keen

The creative impulse is one thing; creation another.........How is emotion to be kept at white heat through the long, cold days of formal construction?
..................................................................... Clive Bell

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

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