How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of “green”?

Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.

We are all creative, from the mother adding an extra pinch of garlic to her meal, to the entrepreneur launching a brand new product, to the business consultant who creates a more effective way for...

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective...

Passion + Vision +Skill + Mentoring = Success.

Only Boiled Seeds are afraid of failure.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they...

Doing better is creativity, doing faster is creativity, doing smarter is creativity, doing right is creativity.

And so I miss the fertilization that might come from a contact. And for me–yes, I think I might as well admit it–fertilization does come a great deal from contacts. Why then do I avoid...

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher...

Your aspirations are deeply influenced by your inspirations. Don’t produce bad situations due to a lack of creative ambitions.

… an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.

De entre los sonidos, palabras y otros elementos triviales, podemos construir juguetes líricos e intelectuales, originar filosofías y canciones llenas de mensajes y consuelo más bellas que el ruin deporte de la fortuna y el...

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty – as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is...

Mistress Creation keeps calling my name… i long for her, and she, for me… we will be reunited soon. In the interim, i bide my time dreaming of her, writing about her and stretching her...

The rigors of creativity – the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude – do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn’t for everyone.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.

She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.

We mustn’t be afraid of inventing anything…Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we’re part of nature. If it resembles nature, that’s fine. If it doesn’t, what of it? When man wanted...

Think of yourself as a brand. You need to be remembered. What will they remember you for? What defines you? If you have it in you, do something that defines you. Invent something, develop a...

Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot...

I’m experimental by nature . . . always exploring my creativity.

Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; ‘Tis wise to learn: ’tis God-like to create!

Sometimes broken hearts are needed, that way you will appreciate the one that handles it with care.

I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills...

The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in pursuit of a goal, to sacrifice for the sake of...

Creativity’s too big a pill; the truth’s too hard to swallow. Sprinkle sugar in a straight line and we’ll all inhale and follow.

Where the Divine and the Human Meet” shows how important it is to meet the world with the creativity of an artist, particularly in these uncertain times: “What do we do with chaos? Creativity has...

There I’m only myself,” she’d said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant.

there is no healthier drug than creativity.

he best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a...

Before innovation – or practical creativity – there is insight. You must see the world differently.

Many believe creativity is mystery, and I always knew that my body is the key.

The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I, of course, it being as much a surprise to me as it could...

The spirit of an artist’s gifts can wake our own.

Its funny to see how creativity is used to satiate a misplaced libido. How it shifts from an extension of who you are to a bait of what/how much you can get.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

Without creativity you are nothing.

One reason that people have artist’s block is that they do not respect the law of dormancy in nature. Trees don’t produce fruit all year long, constantly. They have a point where they go dormant....

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music...

Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing...

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some of my best ideas.

The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.

The Art of Living is to be yourself. It is to be true to yourself. The Art of Living is learning to live with love, awareness and truth. Meditation is the way to learn The...