If there’s one thing I’ve discovered, it’s that stifling yourself will only lead to more misery. […] I polluted all other happiness because I was afraid to let myself create and change. You have to...

Creativity is different than cleverness. Clever things are often fun, but usually shallow and short lived. Creativity is deeper.

Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative.

Hobbies are like flowers on plant. They make the plant look beautiful and feel Proud.

We can’t turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Rationing creativity results in bipolarism of the spirit. Our creativity is also our life force. When we...

Be undeniably good.

Creativity is a basic biological drive to engage in meaningful conversations with ourselves & the world around us.

Discovery’s friend is creativity

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

To be successful in life, plan, implement, revise, update, and build on change.

Live a life that leaves a memory, nobody can steal.

Strike all the adjectives from your bio. If you take photos, you’re not an ‘aspiring’ photographer, you’re not an ‘amazing’ photographer either. You’re a photographer. Don’t get cute. Don’t brag. Just state the facts.

The role of your genius spirit is to essentially heal, transform, and evolve consciousness.

It’s a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it’s healthy that people...

Creativity means bringing simplicity to the existing.

No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The...

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.

I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the...

As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you.

What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things.

But I should caution that if you seek to plot out all your moves before you make them—if you put your faith in slow, deliberative planning in the hopes it will spare you failure down...

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you’ve spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can’t help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth...

From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms… mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything.

You cannot simply tap your creative nature once and then expect to be done with it. It is a lifelong process: a continual commitment to being open to possibility, trusting your instincts, experimenting, taking risks,...

There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

What we wish for, dream and imagine is the very framework and foundation of everything we create

The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary likeness of the thing made to him who makes it, and so of the work of the made to the...

All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any...

Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.

We can imagine how to create and be creative on a beach in a cosmic sky. No grain of sand is merely just sandy; with imagination at hand the sand can become whatever you fancy.

If you can bring yourself to apply your imagination to finding the possible favorable outcomes of undesired developments, even if only as an exercise, you’ll see that it fosters creativity. This suggestion is much more...

The greatest moments of creativity come in absolute solitude, when one’s mind is free from distraction and able to probe the depths of the impossible.

If you knew all about it, it wouldn’t be the leading edge.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

She’s thinking that what she’s been doing all these years isn’t what she wants to do anymore. Sometimes music flows to her and from her, but sometimes it doesn’t. Lately that happens more and more,...

Happiness isn’t something one finds, it’s something one creates.

FV: Hasn’t all art, in a way, submitted to words – reduced itself to the literary…admitted its failure through all the catalogues and criticism, monographs and manifestos —ML: Explanations? FV: Exactly. All the artistry, now,...

My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the way an artist loves another. Jo taught me what that meant.

I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic.

The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody...

His body and his soul appeared to have the strange ability to repel the hours, just as, inversely, a magnet attracts metal. Everything spun about him and fled; he was always the sole centre of...

Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.

A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction.

Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.

Indeed, very few people are aware that in each of our fingers, located somewhere between the first phalange, the mesophalange, and the metaphalange, there is a tiny brain. The fact is that the other organ...

We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it’s impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

I am pushing you, even if it’s off a cliff, to create. Write that book, that song; pore over the concept of redecorating your life. I meet people all the time who say they’re not...

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.