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Creativity Is Subtraction

  • Choose what to leave out
  • You can't possibly create everything you ever set your eyes on.
  • So carefully choose your work, and give your everything to it.
  • “Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.”- jack white

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This book as thought me to get out of my comfort zone and Create. Everything in this world is a remix of what came before. You just have to know how to steal it.

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