Never be ashamed of your creativity. It simply shows everyone of how you can express your emotions through art
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.
I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My...
A writer or any artist can’t expect to be embraced by the people. I've done records where it seemed like no one listened to them. You write poetry books that maybe 50 people read. And you just keep do...
As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra a...
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.
What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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
Discovering Distilled Creativity"Amazing how sitting down to listen with no distractions - no tv, no devices, no radio - can enhance your life; the sigh of the wind the only ambient noise. Then, in th...
The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it.
Sometimes ones man's creativity is another machine's brute force analysis
Because I came to seeThat I should never have been a first-rate potter.I didn't have it in me. It's strange, isn't it, That a man should have a consuming passion To do something for which he lacks the...
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music
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...
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.
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
Store up knowledge. Then question your own knowledge in order to expand your mind, both to build and to create more space. Then store up more knowledge. And so on. That is wisdom.
There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely...