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Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes you’re doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing to do is shovel shit from a sitting position.

Stephen King

20 hours ago

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.

Howard Aiken

1 day ago

Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard them.

Michael Michalko

2 days ago

Push it. Examine all things intensely and relentlessly. Probe and search each object in a piece of art; do not leave it, do not course over it, as if it were understood, but instead follow it down until you see it in the mystery of its own specificity and strength.

Annie Dillard

3 days ago

The artist must raise everything to a higher level: he is like a pump; inside him is a great pipe reaching down into the bowels of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was pooled beneath the surface and brings it forth into the sunlight in giant sprays.

Gustave Flaubert

4 days ago

All creativity is an extended form of a joke. Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.” Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in—the one that we think is reality.

Alan Kay

5 days ago

If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter.

Anton Chekhov

6 days ago -

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Eugene O’Neill

1 week ago

Creativity isn’t magic. It’s achievable.

Nita Leland

1 week ago

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.

Paul Klee

1 week ago

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

Jackson Pollock

1 week ago

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

Robert Brault

1 week ago -

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You’re only as good as your last haircut.

Fran Lebowitz

1 week ago -

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Any fool can learn how to paint. The trick is to learn how to see.

Dorothy McCarthy

2 weeks ago

Why let what you see get in the way?

Joyce Kellock

2 weeks ago