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Creativity Quotes

"The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense."
Pablo Picasso
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
Pablo Picasso
"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. "
Pablo Picasso
"Everything you can imagine is real. "
Pablo Picasso
"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. "
Pablo Picasso
"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. "
Pablo Picasso
"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. "
Pablo Picasso
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. "
Pablo Picasso
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. "
Pablo Picasso
"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. "
Pablo Picasso
"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth"
Pablo Picasso
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
Pablo Picasso
"Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen."
Pablo Picasso
"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not."
Pablo Picasso
"To draw you must close your eyes and sing."
Pablo Picasso
"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."
Pablo Picasso
"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
Pablo Picasso
"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."
Buddha
"A man who has no imagination has no wings."
Muhammad Ali
"There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen. There are not"
Sun Tzu