I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn’t be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict — the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow...

When I walk into [the studio] I am alone, but I am alone with my body, ambition, ideas, passions, needs, memories, goals, prejudices, distractions, fears. These ten items are at the heart of who I...

Think of your passions as you do food, water, shelter…a necessity. If someone told you to give them up, would you listen?

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

I always believe that ideas are like shooting stars when you have one make it happen and not just wish.

And so it was that Michael built a brown castle on the peak of his mountain, Gabriel built a golden pyramid in the midst of his plain, saying it was both a holy temple in...

It is a burden…(M)ake no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talent is a burden and this more than any, and you will long to be free of it. But there is...

I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white...

It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than ours, and their reward was that they could still believe, in...

Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is saidIt was the dream itself enchanted me(“The Circus Animal’s Desertion”)

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

Theres no competition in DESTINY. Run your own RACE and wish others WELL!!!

IF you want to be a winner than follow one simple rule and feed it in your mind. Take each task and work as ” Do it yourself project.

Writing for children “compels you to throw all the force of the book into what was done and said. It checks what a kind, but discerning critic called ‘the expository demon’ in me.

Choose to not worry at all, freeing your creative mind and spirit to solve your problems.

At the very basic level all people are creators. We are all creating at every moment.

Ah!” said Rabbit, who never let things come to him, but always went and fetched them.

Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if...

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

So many important New York musicians were gay, one wit dubbed the American Composers League the Homintern.

YOU DON’T KNOW IF YOUR IDEA IS ANY GOOD the moment it’s created. Neither does anyone else. The most you can hope for is a strong gut feeling that it is. And trusting your feelings...

Social Media begins with a story – your story.

… so this is for us.This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and loveand this is for doing it even if no one will ever knowbecause the beauty is in the...

I am not an artist because of my creativity, but because life in it’s creativity threw me in its rough sketched trampled portraits in the trash drew my story.

It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path – up or down – meaning it isn’t always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To...

In creating the only hard thing’s to begin

… all too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.[2002] p.46

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted

… misfortune and creativity go together.

honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.” Good to remember…

Creativity can impact some sort of “CHANGE” in the WORLD. But we must first embrace pure “DIFFERENCES” and work together for a common cause.

The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death,...

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

Comparison is the enemy to creativity.

Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and focus. But curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity may be even more important as it...

Lies can open up the doors to imagination.

We shouldn’t let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how each of us gets new ideas. Perhaps we hold on to our superstitions about creativity in order...

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

Life is a cracked surface at best. Fiction is a nice edifice. / every word/sentence/paragraph gives a writer an opportunity to reinforce or deliberately crack the edifice by screwing with meaning, structure, grammar, the fourth...

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the...

Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for...

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog’s lifestyle.

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

you cannot teach art—you cannot make a soul