The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as...
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.
Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it...
Instructors could teach the basic techniques and methods, but a mastery of mechanical knowledge could never make a person an artist. No one could teach creativity or invention. A spark needed to come...
A Gift for YouI send you...A cottage retreat on a hill in Ireland. This cottage is filled with fresh flowers, art supplies, and a double-wide chaise lounge in front of a wood-burning fireplace. There...
Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists.
A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've worked in. Having said that, it's fiction and has a lot to do with my imagin...
This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.
Great art comes from passion, from a need to expose human spirit in the face of mortality, the small cruelties and heroisms that make up daily life -- that's where great work comes from, and if you en...
Burn the book. It serves you once.Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime.Lend the book. It serves for generations to come.
Keep it weird. They'll get it later.
Laziness builds walls and fences that keep the mind under control.
A writer seizes every opportunity to wonder.
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked.
Measurements "are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors.
Creativity is about connecting things. The key to genius is knowing how to make those connections.