The glory of being an artist, he realized, was that reality should inform but not constrain
The glory of being an artist, he realized, was that reality should inform but not constrain

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Other Creativity :
- Identify your problems but give your energy and power to solutions
- In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.
- 4 ways to solve daily problems: Eliminate, Simplify, Automate, Delegate.
- Never I’ve felt more validated in my life that through art.
- Prioritization provides a framework for focusing on creativity.
- Creativity is not a talent but an attitude.
- Inhale possibility, exhale creativity.
- We are not short of answers; we are short of the right questions.
- Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.
- We cannot solve an old problem with old solutions.
- Books deliver information so that experience has a chance to exercise creativity.
- You are worth more than what people say or think of you.
- A mind gets its rest when it is meditative and a mind get its respect when it is creative.
- Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth and manifold knowledge.
- I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
- Creativity happens in the transition between order and chaos.
- Nothing stimulates the brain cells like a desire to wipe out the other side.
- Confusion causes creativity.
- Routine is the opposite of creativity.
- A scattered mind will produce scattered results.