Twyla TharpReading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature — all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.
About This Quote
The essence of creativity is the ability to take something existing and rework it into something new. This quote says that there are many ways of achieving creativity, and we can find them in our surroundings and in our personal lives. It also says that these things can be a way of finding out how big a prize we’ve won for finding our creativity.
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