Quotes: Maya Angelou

"Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure ... and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen. We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed." 

–– Maya Angelou (1928-2014), American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist 

Source: Nitch on Instagram, Friday July 5, 2024

Quotes: Helen Frankenthaler

"There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about."

–– Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), American abstract expressionist painter

Quotes: Helen Frankenthaler

"Let mistakes lead to invention."

–– Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), American abstract expressionist painter 

via: Jayne Emerson Textiles on Instagram, September 20, 2022

Quotes: Mark Twain

"Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors." 

–– Mark Twain (1835-1910), pen name of Samuel Clemens, American writer 

via Sketchbook 14, 2011, p. 85

Quotes: Alexander Graham Bell

"Discoveries and inventions arise from the observation of little things." 

–– Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Scottish-born (with ties to Canada and the United States), inventor, scientist and engineer 

Source: National Geographic, January 1988, Vol 173, No. 1, p. 11

via Sketchbook 13, 2011, p. 143

Creativity quotes: Mary Shelly

 "Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos." 

–– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly (1797-1851), British writer