The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

I’d rather have a career that utilizes my creativity, but torturing people all day long is not a bad gig. At least not for me.

There is no such thing as art,” he said. “There is only this painting, this piece of music, that sculpture. And it either resonates with you or it doesn’t.” He paused for a moment and...

Schools kill time and creativity. Find ways to workaround these limitations

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

And observe, you are put to stern choice in this matter. You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. Men were not intended to work...

Who knows their own story? Certainly it makes no sense when we are living in the midst of it. It’s all just clamor and confusion. It only becomes a story when we tell it and...

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life’s sorrow with grace.

I’d stumbled upon the inner sanctuary of a woman who loved the world. Loved the faces of people she saw. Loved the way a hand looked when it was relaxed. Loved the way a woman...

Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you’re bored, blame yourself.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling…and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and...

Innovation is about practical creativity – it’s about making new ideas useful…

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where the artist had traditionally been seen as someone who invents a...

credit” must come from.

Producing works of art doesn’t often count as appropriate intellectual work in an arts department: yet the equivalent in a science department, doing physics or chemistry, does. So why is it that in universities writing...

Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked.

Doing better is creativity,doing faster is creativity,doing smarter is creativity,doing right is creativity.doing Exclusive is creating identity.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul’s call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.

Work as if there’s no one to help you, and learn as if everybody is with you.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist’s head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there...

Curiosity is the main energy…

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

When I am ….. completely myself, entirely alone… or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come...

If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to...

Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.

We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey.

Because the essence of creativity is fucking around; art is that which is done for the hell of it.

SOWING LIGHTNINGSeizeBolts of lightning from the skyAnd plant them in fields of life.They will grow like tender sprouts of fire.Charge somber thoughtsWith unexpected flash,You, my lightning in the soil!

Art is a kind of magic. Creativity is mysterious, even to artists, who might be able to name their inspiration but can’t always explain how their influences and experiences came together to create this new...

A misbegotten hatchling of consciousness, a birth defect of our species, imagination is often revered as a sign of vigor in our make-up. But it is really just a psychic overcompensation for our impotence as...

If you’re a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that’s dangerously close to arrogance.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

The most important principle for self discovery and to taste success is rather than changing other’s attitude changes your own. And always remember same sun which melts the butter also hardens the clay

Time change – Moments don’t.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration,motivation, and a pinch of creativity

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies

Impatience, resentment, jealousy and endless “want” are not creative attractors and have no value.

Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re...

Don’t always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. “I will not Reason and Compare,” said Blake; “my business is to Create.” Besides, since you are like no other...

When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. Clare has turned the second bedroom into a wonder cabinet, full of small sculptures and drawings pinned up on every inch...

Let’s always try to paint the truth … our art must be made to mean something.

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being...

as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don’t wanna care what they think about my...

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer’s own life.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking.

My mind is the pendant, creativity is the chain