Here are my top 7 favorite quotes about creativity. Do you have any to add?

 Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. – Danny Kaye

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see — or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.  –Alice Walker

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. –Augusten Burroughs

We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. ‘Thou shalt not’ is soon forgotten, but ‘Once upon a time’ lasts forever. –Philip Pullman

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography. – Federico Fellini

Make visible what, without you, might never have been seen. – Robert Bresson

Talent is not talent until it is shared. – fortune cookie wisdom

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