She has given me a way out.

History tells creativity is a result of Soul song.

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

Their creativity really comes through when they start decorating. It?s a very simple craft and they make it their own.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

There have been times I’ve felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Our suppressing who we are to fit in is exhausting. It kills flow and creativity. It also prevents genuine connection with others.

Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity.

They have a history of discipline and structure and training and process and a mind-set of creativity and initiative, and that’s a wonderful combination you rarely find in the business world.

You don’t have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape...

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

If you’re “one in a million”, and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you.

We keep waiting to be crowned,Waiting for the world to judge us worthy of offering our brightest, most empowered and beautiful stuff. But that won’t happen. Your next certification or ordination or degree will do...

All life is death. You don’t fool yourself about this anymore. You slash at the perfect canvas with strokes of paint and replace the perfect picture of your imagination with the reality of what you...

…the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

Forgery, being the weirdest form of creativity there is, like antiques, costs lives. Why is it that antiques demand sacrificial victims? Dunno, but if they don’t get enough, forgery does. You want proof? Here it...

I’m convinced that the best solutions are often the ones that are counterintuitive – that challenge conventional thinking – and end in breakthroughs. It is always easier to do things the same old way…why change?...

The first inkling of this notion had come to him the Christmas before, at his daughter’s place in Vermont. On Christmas Eve, as indifferent evening took hold in the blue squares of the windows, he...

They all learned how to swim.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Innovation can start with wanting what does not yet exist – and finding a solution – or seeing what does not yet exist – and finding an opportunity.

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

To creative people, the compendium of the white man’s dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.

This book began with the assertion that Margaret Fuller’s life was her most remarkable creation. It is just possible, however, that her most wonderful creations may still lie in the future. Fuller’s most precious gift...

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

Leaves lift trees.

The anthology was not a best-seller; art as a weapon seldom is.

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original – those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming...

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day’s...

I settle into my imagination so that I might be someone when the real world tells me I’m no one.

Initially, I feel expansive when I try something new, and then contract as soon as I encounter difficulty or the unknown. I am learning to experiment with my tolerance of difficulty and the not knowing,...

The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become.

She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people’s opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.

Don’t be afraid of silly ideas.

Here’s how I learned to improvise: I played some music in the studio and I started to move. It sounds obvious, but I wonder how many people, whatever their medium, appreciate the gift of improvisation....

Part of me would just like to relax and have one job that pays me the amount I need to survive. And another part of me wants the creativity that comes out of struggle and...

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is...

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation.

I find that when you lead with vision and values, engaging employees and showing them that values are just as important as profits, everyone comes on board. And not only do they come on board,...

authors of our days” – which days? Better to invent a genealogy based on pure whim and the leanings of our hearts, but what if they don’t agree?