Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.

Failure taught him that he could have made the right choice. I could have tried.

To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as if nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful… everything that happens is of consequence, for seriousness...

Art gives those unexpressed parts of ourselves permission to be felt and spoken.

Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece...

Doors are for people with no imagination.

Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.

When reading a book, one hopes it doesn’t turn into a painful process. Predictable is bad enough. Laborious is acceptable if the labor produces fruit. But with painfully bad writing, all one can do is...

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

I believe in always being open to learning more through exploration of everything available and following one’s sense of curiosity, creativity, and playfulness.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

Authority in its very nature prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom; in freedom alone can there be creativeness.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Measurements “are never enough. The artist’s eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors.

When I stay in one Place, I can hardly think at all; my body had to be on the move to set my mind going.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

People who aren’t in that space will be like ‘So how was your trip?’ and you don’t even go into it. ‘I guess it was pretty good.’ And then you talk to other people who...

Once you’ve mastered starting and stopping, the rest is easy.

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words....

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Threshold is where the madness ends and the magic begins.

Art is the essence of life in creative form. If you want to compete, run a damn race. If you truly want to create essence, you need to leave competition out of it. 2014

Herodotus says, “Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.

You’ll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.

Entrepreneurship isn’t about luck, it’s about vision, time management, creativity, determination and goals.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

He said, one has to learn that painting well – in the academic and technical sense – comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you’ve got that ability. So have thousands.

There are people who can never go to Fantastica,” said Mr. Coreander, “and others who can, but who stay there forever. And there are just a few who fo to fantastica and come back. Like...

A blank cheque kills creativity.

Imagine in vibrant, wonderful detail your heart’s desire—a reality only you can envision, an adventure only you can direct.Then cradle your creation. Caress it. Mold it. Coddle it until it comes to life.And when your...

Work is the opposite of creativity.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

He had thrilled to his own power only in the throes of sex, when he didn’t have the presence of mind to know that pleasure wouldn’t last forever, and in the flush of freedom, when...

That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

When I am ….. completely myself, entirely alone… or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come...

If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to...

Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.

We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey.

Because the essence of creativity is fucking around; art is that which is done for the hell of it.

SOWING LIGHTNINGSeizeBolts of lightning from the skyAnd plant them in fields of life.They will grow like tender sprouts of fire.Charge somber thoughtsWith unexpected flash,You, my lightning in the soil!

Art is a kind of magic. Creativity is mysterious, even to artists, who might be able to name their inspiration but can’t always explain how their influences and experiences came together to create this new...

A misbegotten hatchling of consciousness, a birth defect of our species, imagination is often revered as a sign of vigor in our make-up. But it is really just a psychic overcompensation for our impotence as...

If you’re a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that’s dangerously close to arrogance.

The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

Music itself has taught me never to underestimate a mistake, for, in the midst of all, it’s often in that mistake where the realm of the unexpected creation is hidden.

No! I don’t want to speak of that! But I’m going to. I want you to hear. I want you to know what’s in store for you. There will be days when you’ll look at...