When you’re socially awkward, you’re isolated more than usual, and when you’re isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts...

Creative people need strong encouragement.

There are no problems—only opportunities to be creative.

Unexplored paths lead to undiscovered treasures

Every creative project starts as an imitation. You begin by mapping what you already know or have previously seen onto the situation. But if you iterate and recombine enough, it becomes an original.

The great idea is the one that is either saleable or is worthy of imitation.

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.

When you’re young, you’re fearless and more creative, more of an outsider.

What would you say to someone that, erm, that said to you, this is a psychiatric hospital, and that you’re a patient here, and that I am yourpsychiatrist?Don Juan: I would say that he has...

Instead of reciting her an original love poem using words, I think I’ll use my tongue to more creatively explore the deepest parts of her.

I am the three minutes of 180 seconds, and I don’t do refills. I’m a lover, not a farmer.

Empty pockets full of empty packets of hot sauce remind me of the love I have for her. My heart burns with desire. My mouth also burns.

Last Sunday it was cloudy, and I thought, Who named this day? Then I thought, Why is there no Loveday? Naturally, It would follow Jarodday.

I pee in the sink, so I can save time by washing my hands at the same time that I am urinating. I’ll bet you’re wondering where my favorite place to make love is.

What is pink, blurry, and always leaving when you’re arriving? Love.

I’m an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don’t imagine I’ll abandon that completely.

Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.

I make them up,’ I tell them. ‘Out of my head.

What if, as an act of worship, creating something meant healing and restoration took place instead of pain and frustration?

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

… in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the sacred isle of Éire, regardless of its creative custodian never having...

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.

Everyone has a story within them, let yours out.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of ‘me’ storytelling.

Love is the only gift that’s acceptable to give away as soon as you get it.

A string of burglaries is a crime necklace. Everything I have can be stolen except love, because I give it all away.

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.

I knitted a sweater to look like a swimming bird, and pretty soon the whole world looked like it tasted like duck soup. My love is coffee-shaped and without chug.

When love knocked at my door, I prayed to God and thanked Him for letting me live in a Porta-potty.

My car would look better with a mustache for a bumper. Then pedestrians would know that I am a superior lover, just before I hit on them.

I want her when she doesn’t want me, and I don’t want her when she wants me. Now that’s love in the 21st century!

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

If you don’t think the wheel should be reinvented then you are suffering from the lack of creative imagination.

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you...

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion.

No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.

His music gave no lesser joy than a vacation. Creativity in his music and its success stood out as an example to all kinds of artists, in the lectures of business speakers, engineers, and to...

Children with autism are constantly testing and pursuing truth. They are a bundle of contradictions. They love order and routine, yet often have the most amazingly inventive and creative minds. They may appear to follow...

Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.

My nickname isn’t Scarface—it’s Scarf Ace. I make knitted neck warmers like I make love—one grandmother at a time.

The core of your true self is never lost. Let go of all the pretending and the becoming you’ve done just to belong.Curl up with your rawness and come home. You don’t have to find...

My two legs are like one pretzel when I sit on the floor. If only love were so intertwined.

Love is the walrus I crayon with like it’s the Eifel Tower. I know, love doesn’t make much sense to me, either.

I saw her from across the room, and I knew I was in love. I also knew why I’d seen no urinals, as I was clearly in the wrong bathroom.

There’s lots of love in Ocala. Must be something in the water. That’s probably why I have to pee so much.

I’m like a sexually active bumper sticker. Canned vagina is always so hard to open and eat. Honk if you’re a lover—and in a hurry.

To their eyes, I was love. To their ears, I was truth. To their noses, I was anus.