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It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke.

The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.

Some people see things and ask Why? I dream things which never were and askWhy not?

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, "Don't play like me, play like you.".

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.