Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.
The spark of wondering is the start of writing.
The most important thing is to be as attentive and aware as possible, with our senses awakened and our ability to love utterly intact, so that we can exist right here and right now, and enjoy life and...
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
Question everything, including your questions. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Why are you asking? Why are you asking in this particular way? Is it really the right question for the answer you are s...
People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to escape the expected and ordinary, to escape the regular expe...
Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.
Some things are meant to live and die with an artist
The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you.
The greatest things to have can't be possessed, they exist within yet can be shared, like freedom, love, trust, integrity, fun, dreams, creativity, wisdom, peace.
Lineation can make your break your poems.
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and...
You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else.
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will...
If you remove adversity, you remove ingenuity and creativity with it. There is no need to strive to make something beautiful or better if it already is.
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience...War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however l...
It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.
There's a lot of wisdom that my dad and my grandparents and my uncle have been able to impart on me, and what I've treasured the most is I've seen examples in my life of people embracing their creativ...
Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.