Creativity is as important as literacy

Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other.

When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our...

I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

Create a guidebook of creative dreamsYou can use a blank book or just blank paper clipped together. Put photographs or scraps from magazines in that represent your creative dreams. Draw, scribble, or paint in between...

After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg, ideas would breed like aphids in my head—for...

Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises. Don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work. And make the right choices and protect...

I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn’t be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict — the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow...

When I walk into [the studio] I am alone, but I am alone with my body, ambition, ideas, passions, needs, memories, goals, prejudices, distractions, fears. These ten items are at the heart of who I...

Think of your passions as you do food, water, shelter…a necessity. If someone told you to give them up, would you listen?

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

I always believe that ideas are like shooting stars when you have one make it happen and not just wish.

Mark has a proven track record in driving creativity, innovation and growth. He’s an experienced, talented executive and has played an instrumental role in building our business and making the Nike brand as strong as...

All change begins with someone having a thought.

The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

People talk– they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

Créer, c’est vivre deux fois.

Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.

TAKE Risk because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be..

The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.

At times, I get to look music in the face and I can’t help to either cry or blush a little every time I do.

How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then...

Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.

Arrogance kills creativity.

But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

Face each day with radiant, nurturing love, confidence, a bright vision and creativity with enduring determination and strength matched with a breathing courage as you happily embrace your responsibility and growth in many areas of...

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when...

Pero precisamente por ser un veterano en estas lides puedo afirmar con énfasis que no existe en el mundo mejor lugar que el autobús para explorar la rica fauna humana, en vivo y sin prejuicios...

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

Inspiration is everywhere.

The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

My life isn’t good or bad. It’s an incredible series of emotional and mental extremes, with beautiful thunderstorms and stunning sunrises.Some would say this is my artistic temperament. Others would say i am mentally ill...

Own your creativity. You are creative with the same juice that flows in all of life. The question is not whether you are creative enough but whether you will free yourself to express it.

True creativity is inherently destructive, and truly creative individuals always, without exception, seek to destroy the mediums they work within.

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, “Mamma, can I open the light?” She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a...

It ain’t bragging if you’ve done it. There’s nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it’s absolutely essential.[check for wording] Proper...

..the writer’s obsession – the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its...

Tomorrow is no hazardous affair, a day like any other day: tomorrow is the result of many yesterdays and comes with a potent, cumulative effect. I am tomorrow what I chose to be yesterday and...

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

Comparison is the enemy to creativity.

Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and focus. But curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity may be even more important as it...

Lies can open up the doors to imagination.

We shouldn’t let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how each of us gets new ideas. Perhaps we hold on to our superstitions about creativity in order...

To make a real independent film where the filmmaker is in charge creatively, one must sacrifice personal, financial, and physical well-being.

Life is a cracked surface at best. Fiction is a nice edifice. / every word/sentence/paragraph gives a writer an opportunity to reinforce or deliberately crack the edifice by screwing with meaning, structure, grammar, the fourth...

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the...