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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

— Rumi

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

— Mark Twain

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

— Thomas Edison

You must have chaos in you to give birth to a dancing star.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

— Oscar Wilde

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

— George Bernard Shaw

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

— Albert Einstein

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

— Maya Angelou

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

— Leonardo da Vinci

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

— Maya Angelou

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

— Albert Einstein

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

— Alexander Pope

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

— Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

— Albert Einstein

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

— William Wordsworth

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

— Mark Twain

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

— Oscar Wilde

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

— George Bernard Shaw

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