Of course creativity is a mystery. We don’t know what drives it or what constitutes it. It’s one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it’s impossible to define.

Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.

I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down...

When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time.

Write them all down. The mistakes and the blessings and the places you cracked in two. Write the prayers and the tantrums. The sacred and the profane. The open roads and the closed doors. Nothing...

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

The reflection of chaos is creativity.

The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female) should be like Mary who, when the angel told her that she was...

A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process.

I think I’m most proud of my family right now. I’m more into that then I’ve ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem…

A creative thought at first sight seems ridiculous and unimportant, an increase in those who cherish it reassures that hiding your creativity hides you for the rest of your life.

Don’t assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while.

Keep it weird. They’ll get it later.

Creation and Free Will are constantly moving, hand in hand, like children traveling along a path full of impulses and inspirations.Through the use of the Dragonflame philosophy they become superior artistic beings able to enjoy...

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

I remember the first time we stood in this spot. We were on the deck of a boat in the middle of what was then Penny’s Bay, envisioning what could be, what would be, what...

Creativity and passion dwindle when hungry. Premiums for talent are easier to demand when desperation isn’t part of the equation. If I’m established, I can demand $350 an hour. If I’m desperate, I may accept...

You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don’t know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I...

Berg paid his way with stories.

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we’re plunging in for the best treats

While friends are there to motivate us and keep us pleased. Our enemies are there to annoy us, which makes us work harder to beat them.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

When I speak about Jesus Christ, I do not speak about Christianity. Christianity has basically nothing to do with Jesus. The spirit of Christ can not be organized. Then it will not liberate you.Christ is...

You know how you’re always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it’s real difficult in life

Books deliver information so that experience has a chance to exercise creativity.

Originality is the best form of rebellion.

Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.What makes someone an artist? I don’t think is has anything...

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn’t need music; lyrics do.

It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say ‘this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian’. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can...

I had fallen into a profound dream-like reverie in which I heard him speaking as at a distance. ‘And yet there is no one who communes with only one god,’ he was saying, ‘and the...

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly...

Life is same for everyone. The difference is only that some are living by heart and some for only sake of living

Find the most talented person in the room, and if it’s not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful. If you ever find that you’re the most talented...

I don’t know who explained this rule to me; maybe it was the product of my own speculations and fantasies. That would have been typical: I was always inventing stories and machinations to make sense...

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

P.S. It’s not schizophrenia, it’s creativity, there is a difference. My voices go away after I let them tell their stories.

Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the people who work for them.

Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.

Orwell’s short and intense life has for years borne witness to some of those verities of which we were already aware. Parties and churches and states cannot be honest, but individuals can. Real books cannot...

It was as if God had become not only the object of my praise and thanksgiving but my creative partner as well.

A mistake is the name we give to any action in which we perceive a difference between what we intended and what has occurred. Intention fuels every dramatic action, including the writing of dramatic stories,...

Art isn’t life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It’s artifice. By definition.(“Talking In The Dark”)

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

That may play a role in creativity and imagination.

You’ve heard poets talk about, poems flowing out of their bodies; painters, they get on a roll. You all have seen the musician, when they are in that state, the guitar, the piano, whatever instrument...

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.