Creativity is born of limitations, not freedom

My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned to myself for each one of my undertakings. I shall go even further: my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes

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What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.