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...

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...

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.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

The most important principle for self discovery and to taste success is rather than changing other’s attitude changes your own. And always remember same sun which melts the butter also hardens the clay

Time change – Moments don’t.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration,motivation, and a pinch of creativity

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies

Impatience, resentment, jealousy and endless “want” are not creative attractors and have no value.

Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re...

Don’t always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. “I will not Reason and Compare,” said Blake; “my business is to Create.” Besides, since you are like no other...

When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. Clare has turned the second bedroom into a wonder cabinet, full of small sculptures and drawings pinned up on every inch...

Let’s always try to paint the truth … our art must be made to mean something.

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being...

as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don’t wanna care what they think about my...

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer’s own life.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking.

My mind is the pendant, creativity is the chain

When you’re bold, some people will think you’re crazy but it’s more insane to be timid

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

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.

Haven’t I told you scores of times, that you’re always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was not in being at the top, but in getting there, in the enjoyment you get out of scaling the...

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.

Take this drink as a token ofmy disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining golden bright in whatever heavy delirious weave you wish to make.

It is through imagination that we transcend understanding and travel into the world of possibilities.

Books aren’t made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids, There’s some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it’s back-breaking,...

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.

I’d say I never considered myself a great architect. I’m more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares.

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.

Should he make a note? He felt for the smooth shape of his pen in his pocket. ‘Theme for a novel: The contrary pull … ” No. If this notion were real, he needn’t make...