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...

Creativity is in the heart of the dreamer.

There are no rules to creativity.

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...

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

All good work requires self-revelation.

Unexplored paths lead to undiscovered treasures

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

Language is the alchemy of transforming a thought into a word, and the word into a new reality.

The theme is targeted and specific but allows for creativity on the part of the students submitting workshop proposals.

Individuality and creativity are slowly dampened by a normal job with normal people.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

Seeing God is all about getting in touch with reality. If you want to photograph God, focus your lens on Hamakom, The Place, anyplace where you see divine light illuminating reality. Let your camera collect...

If you’re a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination still keeps going; you can’t shut it off.

The best way to be unique and set ourselves apart from Society is to create. Use your imagination and apply action towards it.

When you’ve got creative momentum, the last thing you want to do is stop. I’d write and write and wake up with my head slumped over and my fingers still on the keyboard and the...

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world – the extent to which...

The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity....

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

And so, as I sleep, some dream beguiles me, and suddenly I know I dream.Then I think: this is a dream, a pure diversion of my will; now that I have unlimited power, I am...

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

All of the dissatisfactions he had felt in his practice of the art form he had stumbled across within a week of his arrival in America, the cheap conventions, the low expectations among publishers, readers,...

I “love” reading.It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building...

Hopefully, you will glimpse something of your own life’s journey and with Elemental’s Power of Illuminated Love, possibly recognize and celebrate something you had not been able to recognize or celebrate before.

…if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat – creativity is a rugged terrain…

Sadly, many storytellers and artists are still addicted to the old delusions (happy is boring, evil is interesting) about the risks of good mental health. Even those who don’t view peace of mind as a...

Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don’t think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for...

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled until I set him free.

Hearts can’t be broken because they’re made of marzipan.

if you believe in creativity,you will find solutions for every problems.

The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.

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....

think outside the box” remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?

Every organisation faces challenges, but few seize to perform, not due to any shortage of funds, technology or knowledge, but due to the fact that people in such organisations do not use their creativity to...

What does one do with experience? Do we react negatively, or do we (pro)create from the space of positivity?

The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.

Humans are often credited with having real foresight, in distinction to the rest of biology which does not. For example, Dawkins compares the ‘blind watchmaker’ of natural selection with the real human one. ‘A true...

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You don’t even want to communicate in a relationship. You...

The unforeseen is the most beautiful gift life can give us. That is what we must think of multiplying in our domain. That is what should have been talked about in this assembly, and no...

Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.

Everybody says they want artists to make money and then when they do, everybody hates them for it. The word sellout is spit out by the bitterest, smallest parts of ourselves. Don’t be one of...

The knowledge of the Spirit is the true secret of creativity, leadership and happiness. It is spiritual intelligence that makes an ordinary person a genius. When a genius loses his spiritual intelligence, he becomes quite...