Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet.

It is in everyone’s interest that every person’s creative genius be encouraged and allowed to develop and express.

Make history, don’t tell stories

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable...

Igniting your creative potentials opens you up to new learnings and insights.

Guys, I know this takes creativity and work, but you’re going to absolutely blow her away.

Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining golden bright in whatever heavy delirious weave you wish to make.

Spending longer thinking about the problem before you dive in is likely to lead to higher levels of creativity in the final product.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It is the work of the Universe itself.

All I’m writing is just what I feel, that’s all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

…Why are corporations so fleeting?…Instead of imitating the freewheeling city, these businesses minimize the very interactions that lead to new ideas. They erect walls and establish hierarchies. They keep people from relaxing and having insights....

People like you must create. If you don’t create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things...

Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood just behind the one you found yourself contemplating. The trick, but it wasn’t...

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

…the imagination works not so much through inspiration as through perseverance. One must slog through the false starts, spot the wrong words and hold out for the right ones, and above all, be vigilant about...

Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of...

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.

The creative act is not pure.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it’s no go if your personality isn’t worth translating.

You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

Some build their castles ‘mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.

Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.

Remember that your fans are your lifeblood. See that you know who they are, and give them a reason to follow you. Be sure to thank them, often, for caring enough to support you. They’re...

Think about it Cath. That’s what makes a god—or a mother. There’s nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself.

Love means to understand the drama that happens between the inner man and woman. It means to allow both the inner man and woman to find their creative roots and expression.

I am no longer scared to close my eyes and to imagine.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. … Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and...

A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction; he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor...

I existed on my own terms. I was different my entire life. Some called me divergent, wild, crazy, unpredictable and unconformed—an apostate to the rules of the majority. I called myself God’s creation and found...

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river’s flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I...

Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God’s transforming...

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES

If you just mimic the surface of somebody’s work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.

To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.

Be beautiful and you are doing your part to create a more beautiful world.

O desconhecido é a energia de criatividade que nos permeia, quando nos entregamos. Criatividade é a palavra. A sincronicidade do Universo é mais criativa que a sua mente limitada, o seu ego. Se entregue e...

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.

No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone.The accidents happen, we’re not heroines,they happen in our lives like car crashes,books that change us, neighborhoodswe move into and come to love.Tristan and Isolde is scarcely the...

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things—like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale. One night in Hiroshima it occurred to me...