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If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

- James Carswell

Musical comedies aren't written, they are re-written.

- Stephen Sondheim

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

- August Strindberg

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

- Andrei Voznesensky

Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.

- E. M. Forster

I do not seek. I find.

- Pablo Picasso

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

- Saul Steinberg

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

- William Faulkner

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.

- Martha Graham

Doodling is the brooding of the hand.

- Saul Steinberg

I am a choreographer. A choreographer is a poet. I do not create. God creates. I assemble, and I will steal from everywhere to do it.

- George Balanchine

Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work - their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.

- Marilyn Machlowitz

You lose it if you talk about it.

- Ernest Hemingway

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

- James Russell Lowell

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

- Gilda Radner

The End of every maker is himself.

- St. Thomas Aquinas

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control, almost like God creating something.

- Henry Moore

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

- John Cassavetes

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

- Dean William R. Inge

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.

- Voltaire

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

- Frank Capra

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

- Jean Cocteau

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it. What another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

- Andre Gide

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; My business is to create.

- William Blake