An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
When people sleep, others stay awake to effect changes in the world. Every other person wakes up in the morning to a totally different world
Creativity is not any accumulated knowledge, coming from past to the present. The stage of creation is a spontaneous flash of intelligence, Energy merging with mind, to create a new beginning. Creativ...
It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.
The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous.
Wake up, it's your time to shine. You are the gift the world is waiting for. Stop being so selfish by hiding it. How much longer do we have to wait for your magnificence to shine light on our darkness...
The reason for spiritual enlightenment is not to escape life, but to learn how to live it richly, to enjoy it.The Language of Soul
Freedom gives room for creativity.
When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' or 'The Rape of the Sabine Women,' but the angle you use, the li...
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Any human act that gives rise to something new is referred to as a creative act, regardless of whether what is created is a physical object or some mental or emotional construct that lives within the...
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music
You build a thing of beauty, and then the peasants storm the castle, hooting and chanting and calling you a heretic.
It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes on its own momentum, and takes unexpecte...
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
The power of the written word goes way beyond the page on which it is written
There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
The mind is the greatest sacred paradise.
In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.