Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection, his progressive steps, mysterious even to himself, should enter so swiftly into the...

The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.

Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art…I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

Creativity is imagining something that isn’t there and making it real.

Creativity isn’t a switch that’s flicked on or off; it’s a way of seeing, engaging and responding to the world around you.

The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not...

The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without getting bogged down by fixated demands. Of course, you don’t always get what you thought you were asking for.

Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white cliffs tall trees and the sea. I greeted most of mine in the...

Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness. Yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this...

The source calls to you. Find a quiet place and listen for the voice of creation. Look upon the horizon and see the future of your new life, where you are again a natural soul...

Creative minds doesn’t follow rules, they follow will.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

One of the few things I know about writing is this:spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the...

Life is filled with opportunities. Be courageous and fulfill your destiny. You were created for a purpose and once you realize your potential, you become unstoppable. Let no one get in the way of you...

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist’s career.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Gemeinsam aber ist allen Menschen, die des guten Willens sind, dieses: daß unsere Werke uns am Ende beschämen, daß wir immer wieder von vorn beginnen müssen, daß das Opfer immer neu gebracht werden muß.

When it come to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

Do Schools Kill Creativity?”—has now been viewed more than 4 million times. In it Robinson cites the fact that children’s scores on standard tests of creativity decline as they grow older and advance through the...

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

Tortured Soul 101: The depth of despair one experiences during the creative process (as experienced say, in an abysmally blank page or canvas) is directly proportional to the scope and power of the work that...

It’s a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.

Diversity creates dimension in the world.

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast...

You Russians like to think you’re poets but perhaps you’re just touchy.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music

We’re all innately creative; I’m not bringing anything magical to it. Ninety percent of inventing is putting in the hours and just trying. You don’t need to make a big leap—you – need to take...

Respect is not creative … Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore — and then you get something out of her.

The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost....

People won’t see Imagination in something that doesn’t relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to escape the expected and ordinary, to escape the regular expectations of a story,...

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Oh God how subtle he would have to be, how cunning… No paragraph, no phrase even of the thousands the book must contain could strike a discordant note, be less than fully imagined, an entire...

Creativity is easy.Originality is difficult.Relevance is a bitch.

Oftentimes at Yale, I’ll be sitting around studying or drinking or hanging out when I’ll hear one of my friends talk about a project they’re doing for a class or a rally they’re organizing or...

The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and does amazing things that makes the world think he is wise.

Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea, It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does...

I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s...

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

The twin aspects of genius, the passive and the active, are possessed by the fully realized artist; they also form the necessary equipment of the Adept. Yet in very few people are these twin aspects...