“Write the book you want to read.”
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Creativity quotes.
For makers, tinkerers and anyone starting something new.
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“Perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat, pretending to be elegant when actually it’s just terrified.”
“Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work.”
“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.”
“The way to get over creative block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. It seems contradictory, but when it comes to creative work, limitations mean freedom.”
“Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down.”
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.”
“Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.”