"Observation capitalizes inspiration."

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Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”, New York

Alex Faickney Osborn

#Inspiration Quotes #Observation Quotes

“Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.”
“If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.”
“The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.”

Source : Antonín Dvořák, Otakar Šourek (1954). “Antonín Dvořák: letters and reminiscences”, Da Capo Pr
“Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.”
“Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.”
“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.”

Source : "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.
“The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.”
“Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.”

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