At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.

Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come to bear.

Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels...

It is the daily task of the creative to be curious and collect dots. The most creative people I know fill their brains, their idea factories, with as much raw material as they can. They...

I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

There are no rules to creativity.

I believe that nowadays we are in the process of establishing a new relationship between humanity, creativity and nature.

If you’re alive, you’re creative.

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is...

How can we know the dancer from the dance? Did Yeats create his poems, or did his poetry make him a poet? How does one separate the creator from hiscreation? They create each other. On...

Relearning from children their need to question and discover can ignite one’s creativity and reveal more possibilities.

When I’ve lost my way or when I am confused about a path to take, I remember that most answers I need I already possess – deep inside. I am naturally creative, resourceful and whole....

Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as...

The biggest enemy of truth is known as facts in our society.

All good work requires self-revelation.

Unexplored paths lead to undiscovered treasures

Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective.

Creativity is in the heart of the dreamer.

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch.

When you are doing things for the right reasons, you do not need to play by the rules, because there are no rules for a creator walking the path of love.

Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.

Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.

Venture deep into the wilderness of lost thought to the point that you physically shiver with apprehension, and there you will find creativity

I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

I can certainly throw out some observation about the process of creating which may be of use. Firstly, it’s the best & the worst of worlds, because the only fuel you have to make the...

If you’re creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your...

Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era’s declension as a place where “bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget...

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more...

One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.

Daemons had minds of their own, which could never be harnessed, even by those who sheltered them.

I am not…”, remember you have just created something. Be careful of whom you say you are not; you will never be such a person! You are not a loser!

We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can’t steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own...

In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it review and inspect the...

DeathWish: You spent some time working with Courtney Love and Billy Corgan on a creative level, how did this experience help your growth as an artist?EA: It didn’t — it stunted it entirely. I gave...

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

Through artistry, imagination not only allows one to express their creativity, but also their soul.

All creativity is a work in progress

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

Many articles and books on creativity encourage us to ‘think out of the box’ and get rid of all the restrictions on our thinking. The trouble with this advice is that it is almost entirely...

It’s never too late to create!

Something went greatly wrong in our collective history and the starting point of it was the industrial revolution. Our school systems are focussed on a single objective: to produce model citizens for society in order...

That tingle in the brain is called a word.It bats itself against its fleshy bounds.

The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever...

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don’t ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.

Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.