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.

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.

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.

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.

Our actions are highly magnetic to our thoughts.

There is new research showing that our creative potential increases with age. Our creativity is a product of our inner and outer experience, and as we get older, we have all kinds of experience to...

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

Let them shoot us in the head,My blood will grow rootsand will blossom.

Let the systematic theologian spell it out. Let the artists throw out thoughts and slants, maybe even slants no one else has thought of. They should give another view of something familiar to help us...

As a songwriter, I’m gathering clues and possibilities all the time, whether I see a piano that day or not. I’ve tried to explain to people how I collect these dispatches, because I think anybody...

wear your treasure and you will be Treasured

Slow down. Calm down. Don’t worry. Don’t hurry. Trust the process.

Smiling is not a choice, it’s a lifestyle. Pass it on.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that...

Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.

In the example of the navigator, no writing was essential to draw the meaning of observing the object at a distance from the ship. In the real theobservation has been noted and that is enough...

Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do… Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art...

Entrepreneurship is when an individual retrieves a red hot idea from the creativity furnace without the constraint of the heat of lean resources, and with each persistent blow of the innovation hammer shapes the still...

Life’s a maze, you twist and you turn through itThe driest of droughts, maneuvered and I earned through it

This is a hard truth for some to accept: that a lack of resources may not be their true constraint, just a lack of resourcefulness.

look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you…

Creativity is an import-export business.

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...

From the outside looking in, i think my life would appear very isolated, occupying a huge empty space, with hollow-sounding, emotional echoes. But in reality, this solitary sanctuary i inhabit, allows my artistic nature to...

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman’s terms).

Daca schizofrenia este universala, atunci marele artist este cu adevarat cel care sparge zidul schizofrenic, ajungand in patria necunoscuta, acolo unde el nu mai apartine niciunei epoci, niciunui mediu, niciunei scoli.

Don’t hold it, shouldn’t stop it. Let it come, let it flow. Let it reach the positivity, bring the happiness

There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are not facts, they do not improve our business skills, our techniques...

The moments of nature’s universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart’s passion blazes more brightly and its longing aches more painfully, the...

Question: You’re 21-years-old, a young adult writing mature adult literary fiction. Imaj: Yes, I feel creativity is an ageless thing.

Inspiration is the seed of imagination, where great ideas bloom

Reality is only for people with no imagination.

Doing nothing can be as rewarding as doing something. And doing very little can be as productive, in a creative sense, as doing a lot.

When people sleep, others stay awake to effect changes in the world. Every other person wakes up in the morning to a totally different world