Lynn V. Andrews:
Creativity is like a great receptive womb.

Anna Freud:
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Gail Sheehy:
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

Anita Roddick:
Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying you're in love with the anarchist.

Margueritte Harmon Bro:
Many people are inventive, sometimes cleverly so. But real creativity begins with the drive to work on and on and on.

Anais Nin:
The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner:
Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

Coco Chanel:
When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.

Pauline Kael:
In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much."

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