Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood just behind the one you found yourself contemplating. The trick, but it wasn’t...

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

…the imagination works not so much through inspiration as through perseverance. One must slog through the false starts, spot the wrong words and hold out for the right ones, and above all, be vigilant about...

Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of...

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.

The creative act is not pure.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it’s no go if your personality isn’t worth translating.

You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

Some build their castles ‘mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.

Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.

Remember that your fans are your lifeblood. See that you know who they are, and give them a reason to follow you. Be sure to thank them, often, for caring enough to support you. They’re...

Think about it Cath. That’s what makes a god—or a mother. There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.

If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to resonate. You could look inside of yourself and you could have a canvas...

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

I am an artist. Any artist knows that their creations, their pieces must express an array of human emotion and experience. From the juvenile and innocent, to the erotic and the dangerous, and everything in...

The Indians say to draw someone’s portrait is to steal their soul, i am taking photographs, does it mean that i am just borrowing them?

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity

Human beings have an extraordinary capacity to imagine possibilities and then turn those possibilities into realities. Evident in the gifts of civilization—in our arts, languages, sciences, technologies, businesses, governments, and so on—it is clear that...

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself...

We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is a natural outcome of a state of being; that the state...

To tell you the truth, though, I still haven’t made up my mind whether I shall publish at all. Tastes differ so widely, and some people are so humourless, so uncharitable, and so absurdly wrong-headed,...

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES

If you just mimic the surface of somebody’s work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.

To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.

Be beautiful and you are doing your part to create a more beautiful world.

O desconhecido é a energia de criatividade que nos permeia, quando nos entregamos. Criatividade é a palavra. A sincronicidade do Universo é mais criativa que a sua mente limitada, o seu ego. Se entregue e...

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.

No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone.The accidents happen, we’re not heroines,they happen in our lives like car crashes,books that change us, neighborhoodswe move into and come to love.Tristan and Isolde is scarcely the...

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things—like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale. One night in Hiroshima it occurred to me...

Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.

Failure taught him that he could have made the right choice. I could have tried.

To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as if nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful… everything that happens is of consequence, for seriousness...

Art gives those unexpressed parts of ourselves permission to be felt and spoken.

Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece...

Doors are for people with no imagination.

Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.

When reading a book, one hopes it doesn’t turn into a painful process. Predictable is bad enough. Laborious is acceptable if the labor produces fruit. But with painfully bad writing, all one can do is...

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

I believe in always being open to learning more through exploration of everything available and following one’s sense of curiosity, creativity, and playfulness.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Authority in its very nature prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom; in freedom alone can there be creativeness.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Measurements “are never enough. The artist’s eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors.

When I stay in one Place, I can hardly think at all; my body had to be on the move to set my mind going.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau.