Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your...

He thought his detective brain as good as the criminal’s, which was true. But he fully realised the disadvantage. “The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic,” he said with a sour...

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

impossibility exist only in the weak minds

Creativity is fragile; if you don’t nurture it, it can die, leaving you recycling old ideas and pretending they’re fresh. It’s a sure road to mediocrity.

Every creative journey begins with a problem. It starts with a feeling of frustration, the dull ache of not being able to find the answer. We have worked hard, but we’ve hit the wall. We...

I’ve always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings.”–(psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the state of being he calls “flow”)

Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you...

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

Of all the words that exist in any language only a bare minority are pure, unadulterated, original roots. The majority are “coined” words, forms that have been in one way or another created, augmented, cut...

Susan Griffin describes it as a time when “there is no intrinsic authority to my words.” “I…clean off my desk. I make telephone calls. I know I am avoiding the typewriter. I know that in...

I’ve learned that the creative life may or may not be the apex of human civilization, but either way it’s not what I thought it was. It doesn’t make you special and sparkly. You don’t...

Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will...

Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking?

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

We may not live for hundreds of years, but the products of our creativity can leave a legacy long after we are gone.

A little care and a dash of creativity can transform the simplest items into great expressions of love.

Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.

Wake up, it’s your time to shine. You are the gift the world is waiting for. Stop being so selfish by hiding it. How much longer do we have to wait for your magnificence to...

Creative is my god. Technology my cherished lover.

Building positive customer experiences will help create passionate customers who will spread your message on their behalf – almost like an evangelist.

I must,” then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to...

no body at home”, and the victim is the resultat of these two roles. It is always easier to follow a group without awareness, than to follow your own heart, to trust your own intelligence,...

There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what...

Oh, man. I’m not interested to driving the Lamborghini. I’m more interested in making Lamborghini. That’s what creativity means to me.

Selfish DreamscapesIf you have a dream, as you should, relish in being selfish about building every passionate aspect of it. The crowd of spectators and consumers will still be exactly where you left them… gossiping...

Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just...

List of Artists Who Created Fantasy Worlds to Try and Cure Bouts of Sadness1. Italo Calvino2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez3. Jim Henson and Jorge Luis Borges – Labyrinths4. The creator of MySpace5. Richard Brautigan6. J.K. Rowling7....

Three miles from my adopted city lies a village where I came to peace.The world there was a calm place, even the great Danube no more than a pale ribbon tossed onto the landscapeby a...

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

You build a thing of beauty, and then the peasants storm the castle, hooting and chanting and calling you a heretic.

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.

Priorities” There’s No Such Thing as “Busy

Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use...

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

The most effective form of creation is an act of cooperation, not force.

Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.

The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage...

We can build anything in our imagination that’s where all creation begins in your life

Blaming people for your mistakes is a faster route to the dungeon of uncreativity

It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.

They’re only crayons. You didn’t fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now?

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Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one’s romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one’s imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring...