Like almost all of Beefheart’s recorded work, it was not even “ahead” of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic...

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

Transcendence is before you should you choose to take a swim.Into your deep blue you dive and all that is within.Referred to as my subconscious so you may understand me clear.But there’s nothing very simple...

No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly...

We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is...

It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the world. The work of the artist is an expression of...

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She...

Critique by creating.

Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I...

I would follow in your footsteps if I wasn’t so busy making my own.

Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea . . . creativity and stupid are interchangeable . . . because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going...

Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious…and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one.

At times we fail to find solution for our challenges, but those solutions are very much around us. Our creativity can help us reach those solutions.

Routine kills creative thought.

Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are...

Do you know what the imagination is, Susan?”The child nodded sagely. “That’s when you see things that aren’t really there.””Well, not exactly,” said Kris with a smile. “No — to me the imagination is a...

Good” now is better than “Best” never.

Given the freedom to create, everybody is creative. All of us have an innate, instinctive desire to change our environment, to put our original stamp on this world, to tell a story never told before....

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be...

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

Have and show motivation to do and learn. That’s the key for a good career. Everything else is an extrapolation of that.

You have to design your own price tag for the world.

You can’t make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn’t like it. Life isn’t perfect.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Your only limitation is the limits of your imagination so dream big.

She has given me a way out.

History tells creativity is a result of Soul song.

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

Their creativity really comes through when they start decorating. It?s a very simple craft and they make it their own.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

There have been times I’ve felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Our suppressing who we are to fit in is exhausting. It kills flow and creativity. It also prevents genuine connection with others.

Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity.

They have a history of discipline and structure and training and process and a mind-set of creativity and initiative, and that’s a wonderful combination you rarely find in the business world.

You don’t have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape...

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

If you’re “one in a million”, and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you.

We keep waiting to be crowned,Waiting for the world to judge us worthy of offering our brightest, most empowered and beautiful stuff. But that won’t happen. Your next certification or ordination or degree will do...

All life is death. You don’t fool yourself about this anymore. You slash at the perfect canvas with strokes of paint and replace the perfect picture of your imagination with the reality of what you...

…the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.