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...

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.

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...

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.

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

Creativity is in the heart of the dreamer.

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch.

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first...

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the...

I have to give it up and I have to grow up.” But the truth is that I can never give it up and that’s another thing that I always tell people, especially young people:...

We want to get it done as quickly and inexpensively with as much creativity and flexibility as we can have.

I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head – and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That...

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you were told that the king...

So many forms of creativity together in one spot. It’s beautiful.

Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.

I’m never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.

When you have wit of your own, it’s a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Creativity is an endless source that comes from above, from the most high source of creation[God].

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity

the battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.

If critics say your work stinks it’s because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can...

To lose focus means to lose energy. The absolutely wrong thing to attempt when we’ve lost focus is to rush about struggling to pack it all back together again. Rushing is not the thing to...

They spell-caught the sounds of cat paws, the breath of fish, the spittle of birds, the hairs of a woman’s beard, and the roots of a mountain, and spun them around the sinews of a...

I’m not trying to tell you,” he said “that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It’s not so.But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant...

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates...

What do you really want?Did you know that every single one of your desires is an expression of your soul’s longing to experience human life as you? It’s true.These pure impulses get filtered through our...

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

It wakes us right up.

Never regret losing time on reading good books

Creating a better futureRequires creativity in the present.

So the key is doing something that sets you apart forever in the minds of regular people.Something that matters.

Envy won’t make you a better poet.

Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery” ~ Snarky comment of Clive from “The River Swimmer” (pg 47)

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

One of your most powerful inner resources is your own creativity. Be willing to try on something new and play the game full-out.

Innovation is creativity with a job to do.

My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation...