A Gift for YouI send you…A cottage retreat on a hill in Ireland. This cottage is filled with fresh flowers, art supplies, and a double-wide chaise lounge in front of a wood-burning fireplace. There is...

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a...

No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.

Any man who bears the ability of a polymath shall not be interfered by specialty, he needs discipline to manage his behaviors and nurture his creativity.

Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.

I am, as it were, the created creating—a paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human journey, and one I invite you to struggle with just as I have...

Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?

Every human being has divinity encased within its spirit and it is the task of its creator as well as itself to set it free. No human being is an end product, every being still...

you areso deliciousto my poetic side.

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It has always been simple, but making it hard was always your way of avoiding pain. If you want to change your life, you have to change what you are doing. It wasn’t his fault,...

Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.” (p.232)

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness...

Being wise and being smart are two different things anyone can be smart but those who master the art of knowing what to overlook in this journey called life deserves to be called wise.

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don’t allow you to live and Oxygen don’t let you die.

If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.

Every story has already been told. Once you’ve read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason...

Suppression of love or hatred creates conflict.

Creative minds doesn’t get tired.

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man’s physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience,...

My friends think I’m outgoing, but I don’t travel as much outside as I do from the inside.

Avšak jako tvůrčí člověk je jedinec vystaven tomu, že není svobodný, nýbrž jej poutá a pudí démon.

I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not...

The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you’re already doing. Thinking more about what...

Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else’s as your truth.

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive...

When you aren’t satisfied with what has already been done, make something better. That is the greatest responsibility and the true freedom of creativity. The freedom is in that it doesn’t need to complain.

The creative process is a love story that never ends. The ideas are like suitors competing for your attention. You may have relationships, with multiple ideas, at once. You may devote yourself completely to one...

Every creative force has an equal power to destroy.

**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.**That’s right – the essential insight doesn’t come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and...

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance...

No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us, and increasingly unable to engage in long-form thinking. People now feel anxious when their...

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it’s teaching you stuff, it’s not being wasted.

Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.

Asbjørn had a nose, that was his great talent, I had never met anyone with such sureness of taste as him, but what use was it, part from being the hub student life revolved around?...

Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream.

One with true creativity can erase their one past, and replace it with an infinite number of pasts, creating new possibilities for the future.

Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all. To say anything beyond this about the creative process is...

Don’t be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone’s bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don’t hurt anybody, what’s it...

My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing, Monsieur Boustouler, and you will find all manner of dishonor. Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people,...

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.

Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.

Entrepreneur, take a bite out of Apple’s innovation so in turn you can bear fruits of creativity.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.