Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.
My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservat...
I create, therefore I am.
the battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.
Oftentimes at Yale, I'll be sitting around studying or drinking or hanging out when I'll hear one of my friends talk about a project they're doing for a class or a rally they're organizing or a play t...
The fact that you have started a small business doesn't mean you should be thinking small. Think BIG! Start Small! Expand your territories!
Creativity is the art and science of expressing inner beauty.
DeathWish: You spent some time working with Courtney Love and Billy Corgan on a creative level, how did this experience help your growth as an artist?EA: It didn't -- it stunted it entirely. I gave up...
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
if you want to understand your child better then see through the child's eye.
A writer walks in nature to wonder.
I don't like shit too perfect. I want some human stake in my shit. If it's too perfect I ain't really with it. If it's too clean I ain't really with it. If it's too polished I don't really like it.
Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater.
This imaginary gift is a journey for your imagination.I send you...A luxury train ride. On this train are all the inspiring people you've ever wanted to meet or talk to. You glide from car to car, sit...
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everythi...
When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.
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.
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity