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...

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

There are no rules to creativity.

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

Unexplored paths lead to undiscovered treasures

All good work requires self-revelation.

Creativity is in the heart of the dreamer.

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch.

Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white cliffs tall trees and the sea. I greeted most of mine in the...

Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness. Yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this...

The source calls to you. Find a quiet place and listen for the voice of creation. Look upon the horizon and see the future of your new life, where you are again a natural soul...

Creative minds doesn’t follow rules, they follow will.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

One of the few things I know about writing is this:spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the...

Life is filled with opportunities. Be courageous and fulfill your destiny. You were created for a purpose and once you realize your potential, you become unstoppable. Let no one get in the way of you...

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist’s career.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Gemeinsam aber ist allen Menschen, die des guten Willens sind, dieses: daß unsere Werke uns am Ende beschämen, daß wir immer wieder von vorn beginnen müssen, daß das Opfer immer neu gebracht werden muß.

When it come to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

Do Schools Kill Creativity?”—has now been viewed more than 4 million times. In it Robinson cites the fact that children’s scores on standard tests of creativity decline as they grow older and advance through the...

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

Tortured Soul 101: The depth of despair one experiences during the creative process (as experienced say, in an abysmally blank page or canvas) is directly proportional to the scope and power of the work that...

It’s a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.

Diversity creates dimension in the world.

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast...

You Russians like to think you’re poets but perhaps you’re just touchy.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music

We’re all innately creative; I’m not bringing anything magical to it. Ninety percent of inventing is putting in the hours and just trying. You don’t need to make a big leap—you – need to take...

Respect is not creative … Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore — and then you get something out of her.

His creativity and energy helped elevate the Australian Open to be on a par with the other three grand slams and set a benchmark for major sporting events in Australia and around the world.

All of our days are numbered; we cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent...

Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment.