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Art is why I get up in the morning.

—Ani Difranco

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Now her paints are dry
And I looked outside

—Jane’s Addiction

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And the sky was made of amethyst.

—Courtney Love

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I've been doing a lot of painting lately. Abstract painting, extremely abstract—no brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

—Steven Wright

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When you appreciate a painting or a piece of music or a work of literature, no matter when it was created, you appreciate it now. You experience the same nowness in which it was created. It is always now.

—Chögyam Trungpa

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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way, things I had no words for.

—Georgia O'Keeffe

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

—Erich Fromm

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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

—Pablo Picasso

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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set it free.

—Michelangelo

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see.

―Anaïs Nin

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Art is never finished, only abandoned.

—Leonardo da Vinci

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Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

—Banksy

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Art is what you can get away with.

—Andy Warhol

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I paint flowers so they will not die.

—Frida Kahlo

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I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

—Vincent van Gogh

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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

—M.C. Escher

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I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

—Salvador Dalí

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I think there's an artist hidden at the bottom of every single one of us.

—Bob Ross

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Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who come alive.

—Howard Thurman

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The imagination’s kisses
are a cloud of butterflies.

―Braided Creek

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Behold this day. It is yours to make.

—Unknown

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Poem: Origami

Poem: Listen to the Mustn'ts

Poem: You wake the dead to life

Art 21

Breathing life into 'inspire'

On muse & muses

Henry Miller Memorial Library

How deep is your love?

For Small Creatures Such as We

Great art explained

Omeleto

Laurie Doctor

Bongo’s dream house

The Marginalian

Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

Imagine: How creativity works

The artist is present

The pandemic logs

Creativity tools

Rivers & Tides

Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre

Pee-wee’s Playhouse

Wreck this journal

Burn after writing

Brief but spectacular

Corporeal writing

The Writer’s Block

The 3 A.M. epiphany

Writing down the bones

Not quite what I was planning: six-word memoirs

Can creativity be learned?

Secrets of the creative brain

The creative process

Stephen King on creative process

How to be more creative

How to think creatively

Five lessons in creativity from Metallica

The future of writing is a lot like hip-hop

Mapping creativity in the brain

The creative process of a paralyzed screenwriter

Find your f*cking happy

Spiritual AF

The power of fun

How to have fun again

The power of art in a political age

Ideas are immortal

True Perception: The path of dharma art

Place your thoughts here: meditation for the creative mind

Burning Man art installations archive

Bob Ross

Linda Goode Bryant

Laurie Anderson

Anicka Yi

Georgia O’Keeffe

Banksy

M.C. Escher

e e cummings

Salvador Dalí

Jorge Luis Borges

MoMA

Nothing is wasted

Simpsons Theory

CROWS (夢 Yume, aka Akira Kurosawa's Dreams)

Recoding of art

O’Keeffe: Days in a life

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