To the memory of Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, El Greco, and many others who came before me as well as those who will come after. We are one. Thank you.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if...

When a person reaches the end of a book and says, ‘I want to read that again,’ what he’s actually saying is that he wants to mentally merge with his favorite character and stroll among...

How To Be An Explorer Of The World1. Always Be LOOKING (notice the ground beneath your feet.)2. Consider Everything Alive & Animate3. EVERYTHING Is Interesting. Look Closer.4. Alter Your Course Often.5. Observe For Long Durations...

Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers....

Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

Often we are identified with either the inner man or woman, while the other side is hidden and unexpressed. Outer relationships are a mirror of the relationship and communication between our own inner man and...

Nothing is more memorable than truth beautifully told.

We all are creative by nature, but our creativity gets buried deep under the pressure of our day to day mad rush.

For certain you can be helped, should you accept it. But as far as being made…no one can do that. This occurred on the day you were born. An earth day is not a birth...

Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a...

The conventional mind is passive – it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want to play with it, too. Sometime they’d rather play with yours than theirs. Or...

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first...

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the...

I have to give it up and I have to grow up.” But the truth is that I can never give it up and that’s another thing that I always tell people, especially young people:...

We want to get it done as quickly and inexpensively with as much creativity and flexibility as we can have.

I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head – and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That...

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you were told that the king...

So many forms of creativity together in one spot. It’s beautiful.

Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.

I’m never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.

When you have wit of your own, it’s a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Creativity is an endless source that comes from above, from the most high source of creation[God].

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity

the battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.

If critics say your work stinks it’s because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can...

To lose focus means to lose energy. The absolutely wrong thing to attempt when we’ve lost focus is to rush about struggling to pack it all back together again. Rushing is not the thing to...

They spell-caught the sounds of cat paws, the breath of fish, the spittle of birds, the hairs of a woman’s beard, and the roots of a mountain, and spun them around the sinews of a...

I’m not trying to tell you,” he said “that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It’s not so.But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant...

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates...

What do you really want?Did you know that every single one of your desires is an expression of your soul’s longing to experience human life as you? It’s true.These pure impulses get filtered through our...

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

It wakes us right up.

Never regret losing time on reading good books

Creating a better futureRequires creativity in the present.

So the key is doing something that sets you apart forever in the minds of regular people.Something that matters.

Envy won’t make you a better poet.

Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery” ~ Snarky comment of Clive from “The River Swimmer” (pg 47)