Creativity

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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards
Inspiration comes of working every day
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create
Inspiration must find answering inspiration
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in
Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life
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