The creativity? Oh, yes. OH, YES!

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art

The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities…. A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them,...

When talented people write badly, it’s generally for one of two reasons: Either they’re blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they’re driven by an emotion they must express. When talented people...

The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge...

Those who say there are no more original ideas need to get out of the way of those of us who are creating them.

Nothing kills creativity so well as a big dose of negativity.

God is the creator, so for that human creativity is a work of Divine.

If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff.

The best way to be original is to not copy anyone.

Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.

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.

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

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

Try your ideas. You might surprise yourself.

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.

It is not the essence of humans to be passive. We are players. We are actors on many stages…. We are curious, we are yearning to wonder, we are longing to be amazed… to be...

I worried I would miss it, and I knew, from losing Wyatt, that things happen the moment the soul is released. Wyatt had been there in the school, watching me, making sure I survived. Souls...

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.