Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences.

The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it.

You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred...

God gave us ground we created a city, God gave us time we need to create a future.

There’s a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called ‘jobless recovery.’ Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

I’ve said you can actually see this fusion in skilled mechanics and machinists of a certain sort, and you can see it in the work they do. To say that they are not artists is...

In this lifetime we are like Superman who must remain disguised as the nerdy newspaper journalist Clark Kent, or Harry Potter and his friends who are not allowed to do magic while they are on...

I know its totally senseless to attempt to write something ‘great’ in a time where people seem mostly concerned with bashing each other heads in, there’s only 1 bestseller a year that a 12 year...

Play as well as you can; that’s it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you’re not.

… and I realise the only way to tell the others is through the way my voice can take these broken wordsand turn it into music. Turn it into poetry.And I sing to make myself...

You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that’s when you know it’s real, when it’s good.

For some young artists, it can take a bit of time to discover which tools (which medium, or genre, or career pathway) will truly suit them best. For me, although many different art forms attract...

God has created you, not your future.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

Don’t become a prisoner of your own reality, set yourself free by creating a life worth living.

We don’t value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there’s no pleasure in creating things and no...

There can be no product of pleasure without the inverse on the end of the producer.

When you imagine it, feel it, then write it – creation is inevitable.

… so this is for us.This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and loveand this is for doing it even if no one will ever knowbecause the beauty is in the...

God used time in creating the universe.

Creating something is only half the battle. The other half is finding people who care about it.

When it comes to creating things, I compete with nature not with men.

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue.

Life is not about finding your true self, but creating who you wish to be.

Creating means living.

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.

This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer’s block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what’s going on has really helped.

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive...

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.

We have to be careful about creating more rules.

My artificial creations will be better than nature’s natural creations.

Life is not something that happens to us, Life happens through us.

Nothing listens as well as a blank page.

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

I have come to believe that our innate purpose is nothing more than to be the greatest version of ourselves. It is a process of refinement, improvement, and enhancement. When you are aligned with this...

Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up – with that heroic Delta force – people not realizing that they were always there but doing...

You have to work at creating your own culture.

There is an excitement in creating a life, rather than maintaining a life you are not excited about living.

Life is just so interesting and complicated and beautiful. Every day, every interaction is different. There’s so much floating around that I would find it really hard to get bored. I’m interested in creating in...

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.

Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.

Research gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and the environment that come from planting trees and creating new woodland habitat. It’s obvious trees are good things.

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do...

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

… I find myself most drawn to: art that has arisen from a deeply personal conversation between the artist and the work at hand. It is art that walks perilously close to the Edge, that...

Artists and artisans both demonstrate with perfect clarity that a person is least able to appropriate for himself those things which are most peculiarly his. His works leave him as birds do the best in...

Do you want to be in your own story or on the outside writing about it? Everyone battles fear and uncertainty every day. However, the only failure in life is believing that your value relies...

I have total confidence in Beaute Prestige International to accompany me in creating a perfume that interprets my work and my world.

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar’s fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.

Videos are more like photography. It’s not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.