The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

• When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

give an academic a blank page and they will ask you of curriculum, give a creative a blank page and they will draw you one

For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.

Talent works, genius creates.