It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.

I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the...

As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you.

What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things.

But I should caution that if you seek to plot out all your moves before you make them—if you put your faith in slow, deliberative planning in the hopes it will spare you failure down...

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you’ve spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can’t help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth...

From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms… mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything.

You cannot simply tap your creative nature once and then expect to be done with it. It is a lifelong process: a continual commitment to being open to possibility, trusting your instincts, experimenting, taking risks,...

There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

What we wish for, dream and imagine is the very framework and foundation of everything we create

The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary likeness of the thing made to him who makes it, and so of the work of the made to the...

All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any...

Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.

We can imagine how to create and be creative on a beach in a cosmic sky. No grain of sand is merely just sandy; with imagination at hand the sand can become whatever you fancy.

If you can bring yourself to apply your imagination to finding the possible favorable outcomes of undesired developments, even if only as an exercise, you’ll see that it fosters creativity. This suggestion is much more...

The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one’s mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible.

If you knew all about it, it wouldn’t be the leading edge.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

She’s thinking that what she’s been doing all these years isn’t what she wants to do anymore. Sometimes music flows to her and from her, but sometimes it doesn’t. Lately that happens more and more,...

Happiness isn’t something one finds, it’s something one creates.

FV: Hasn’t all art, in a way, submitted to words – reduced itself to the literary…admitted its failure through all the catalogues and criticism, monographs and manifestos —ML: Explanations? FV: Exactly. All the artistry, now,...

My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the way an artist loves another. Jo taught me what that meant.

I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic.

The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody...

His body and his soul appeared to have the strange ability to repel the hours, just as, inversely, a magnet attracts metal. Everything spun about him and fled; he was always the sole centre of...

Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.

Get out of your mind and become crazy about your future in a creative way!

Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something–a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question—-ignites the flame of an entire work that blazes suddenly into consciousness.

Sexual role-play is the enactment of a highly imaginative and erotic psychodrama where the individual is given creative license to express the polar opposite qualities of their multifaceted personality; bringing a profound sense of psychological...

When did most of us stop being poets?

I am a creator, writing like the wind, I carry the weight of a future world in the barrel of a pen, etching my characters into the paper with life giving ink so my dreams...

Walking’s a great way to create. The ideas seem to fall from the sky sometimes, and the fresh air is great too.

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

When I sit down to write I actually ask myself, ‘Who do you want to be today?’

Inside CriticsThe critical voices in our own heads are far more vicious than what we might hear from the outside. Our “inside critics” have intimate knowledge of us and can zero in on our weakest...

Don’t try to follow trends. Create them.

They slow your brain down,” he said, clutching an orange bottle of pills. “They iron out all the wrinkles…Maybe all the bad stuff happens in the wrinkles, but all the good stuff does, too…”They break...

High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.’ – John Cleese

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

Practical utility, however, is not the ultimate purpose of a liberal arts education. Its ultimate purpose is to help you learn to reflect in the widest and deepest sense, beyond the requirements of work and...

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.

That which builds is better than that which is built.

Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective.

I have no sympathy with the belief that art is the restricted province of those who paint, sculpt, make music and verse. I hope we will come to an understanding that the material used is...

For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to...

If you can imagine it you can surely create it

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor...