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> [Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/creativity-consists-in-maintaining-a-key-aspect-of-the-experience-of/)

[Donald Woods Winnicott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-woods-winnicott/)

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## More by Donald Woods Winnicott

> [It's only too easy to idealise a mother's job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines and its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/it-s-only-too-easy-to-idealise-a-mother-s-job-we-know-well-that-every/)

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> [Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/tell-me-what-you-fear-and-i-will-tell-you-what-has-happened-to-you/)

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> [Play like dreams serves the function of self realization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/play-like-dreams-serves-the-function-of-self-realization/)

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> [It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/it-is-in-playing-and-only-in-playing-that-the-individual-child-or/)

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> [“The most aggressive and therefore the most dangerous words in the languages of the world are to be found in the assertion I AM.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/the-most-aggressive-and-therefore-the-most-dangerous-words-in-the/)

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> [The mother gazes at the baby in her arms, and the baby gazes at his mother's face and finds himself therein... provided that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/the-mother-gazes-at-the-baby-in-her-arms-and-the-baby-gazes-at-his/)

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> [There is for many a poverty of play.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/there-is-for-many-a-poverty-of-play/)

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> [However, it can't be helped; mothers, if they do their job properly, are the representatives of the hard, demanding world and it is they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/however-it-can-t-be-helped-mothers-if-they-do-their-job-properly-are/)

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> [Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/creativity-consists-in-maintaining-a-key-aspect-of-the-experience-of/)

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> [If mothers are told to do this or that or the other,... they lose touch with their own ability to act… Only too easily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/if-mothers-are-told-to-do-this-or-that-or-the-other-they-lose-touch/)

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> [It's a poor thing to be sane!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/it-s-a-poor-thing-to-be-sane/)

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> [The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/the-capacity-to-still-feel-wonder-is-essential-to-the-creative-process/)

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> [It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/it-is-in-playing-and-perhaps-only-in-playing-that-the-child-is-free/)

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> [Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which to retreat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/feeling-real-is-more-than-existing-it-is-finding-a-way-to-exist-as/)

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> [Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-woods-winnicott/artists-are-people-driven-by-the-tension-between-the-desire-to/)

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