Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

Once you master starting and stopping, the rest is easy.

In the religious myths, the creative will appears personified in God, and man already feels himself guilty when he assumes himself to be like God, that is, to ascribe this will to himself. In the...

In other words, if Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy showed more than their fair share of pathology it was due less to the requirements of their creative work than to the personal sufferings caused by the unhealthy...

Creativity is a magic wand that works two ways. When you set it in action and seek to create something, it does not just brings into existence that object or work, it also raises in...

If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord...

Creating anything that never existed before is not sanity.

You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.” Mario Vargas Llosa

Be creative! Write, sing, dance, paint, whatever you do, make something for your Maker!

Cultural wisdom says ‘Don’t quit your day job.’ Yet I think these desires represent our psyche’s stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many religious tranditions teach, is to make manifest a unique face...

An entrepreneur is a leader of excellence, trailblazer and pioneer who constantly brings change to their generation.

The creativity? Oh, yes. OH, YES!

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art

The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities…. A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them,...

When talented people write badly, it’s generally for one of two reasons: Either they’re blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they’re driven by an emotion they must express. When talented people...

The world is a wonderous train stop on your soul’s journey. You will not be here for long so enjoy as much as you can. There is peace in the smallest moments if you stop...

life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one

Don’t keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be....

It is when we develop both our inner man and woman that we find a new harmony and wholeness within ourselves. Healing means to develop and integrate our inner man and woman so that love...

I’ve never believed that they’re separate. Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist. Michelangelo knew a tremendous amount about how to cut stone at the quarry. The finest dozen computer scientists...

That’s it! Stretch way beyond your perceived limitations..Go for yours like you own it already, because you truly do.

Made from divinity must mean mindstate to create is intrinsic – no fiction. Stop playin’ with your power, your inner ‘G’, and build on purpose – accordingly. Being free is for free, so force the...

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that...

God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through...

The dreamtime of creative work is a turnstile to eternity. (from Workbok)

Slow down. Calm down. Don’t worry. Don’t hurry. Trust the process.

Smiling is not a choice, it’s a lifestyle. Pass it on.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that...

Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.

In the example of the navigator, no writing was essential to draw the meaning of observing the object at a distance from the ship. In the real theobservation has been noted and that is enough...

Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do… Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art...

Entrepreneurship is when an individual retrieves a red hot idea from the creativity furnace without the constraint of the heat of lean resources, and with each persistent blow of the innovation hammer shapes the still...

Life’s a maze, you twist and you turn through itThe driest of droughts, maneuvered and I earned through it

This is a hard truth for some to accept: that a lack of resources may not be their true constraint, just a lack of resourcefulness.

look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you…

Creativity is an import-export business.

From the outside looking in, i think my life would appear very isolated, occupying a huge empty space, with hollow-sounding, emotional echoes. But in reality, this solitary sanctuary i inhabit, allows my artistic nature to...

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman’s terms).

Daca schizofrenia este universala, atunci marele artist este cu adevarat cel care sparge zidul schizofrenic, ajungand in patria necunoscuta, acolo unde el nu mai apartine niciunei epoci, niciunui mediu, niciunei scoli.

Don’t hold it, shouldn’t stop it. Let it come, let it flow. Let it reach the positivity, bring the happiness

There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are not facts, they do not improve our business skills, our techniques...

The moments of nature’s universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently, the heart’s passion blazes more brightly and its longing aches more painfully, the...

Question: You’re 21-years-old, a young adult writing mature adult literary fiction. Imaj: Yes, I feel creativity is an ageless thing.

Inspiration is the seed of imagination, where great ideas bloom