Wellness Calendar: Monday 21 July

Quotes on creativity and expression

What do you make of the following quotes? Do you have any of your own quotes about creativity and expression that really manage to nail it for you?

“It is only in playing that the individual uses their whole personality in creative activity and it is only in creative activity that they discover their self.”
Donald Winnicott

“Art is a way of knowing.”
Pat B. Allen

“Surrealism is the destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”
Salvador Dali

“The urge to destroy is a creative urge.”
Mikhail Bakunin

“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.”
Carl Jung

“We need to be childish to understand. Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”
Douglas Adams

“The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgement.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.”
Georgia O'Keeffe, artist

“Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
Ursula Le Guin

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