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...

It is appropriate to speak of the artisans as possessed of wisdom (and not just “skill”), because the biblical writers share the understanding common to most traditional societies that the active form of wisdom is...

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation … can be a result, but you’re going to do the work anyway. Because you’re just wired that way. It’s so engrained, it’s such a...

Create a standard for yourself and not a limit. A limit tells where you can reach in life, but standard tells about what you will love to do best at a time!

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

How can I not be confused, and settle in the society just like everyone else! An environment that misconstrues my inability to focus, and interpret it as multitasking. Call me “normal” or “typical” when in...

He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.

What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.

I’m a bit of a night owl because that’s when I feel the most creative and alive.

creativity is our only weapon against entropy

Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can’t stiffen up enough to create them.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.

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.

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She...

Critique by creating.

Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I...

I would follow in your footsteps if I wasn’t so busy making my own.