Quotes About Creativity

One way to access the field is through the daily practice of silence, meditation, and non-judgment. Spending time in nature will also give you access to the qualities inherent in the field: infinite creativity, freedom, and bliss.

There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

Children should also be taught that success and fulfillment come from inside, and it is only inside that matters. Each of us is responsible for how we feel, what we wish for, and how we decide to approach life's challenges. The highest responsibility is fulfilled not by doing a huge amount of work but by doing the work of spirit in an attitude of joy and creativity. This is the only way that life without struggle becomes possible.

But this was the first occasion I had come across someone for whom art was a means of avoiding reality rather than confronting it head on, an idea so strange to me that I didn't fully comprehend it at the time.

By contrast, human action, to use the "Austrian" economic term, is not merely reactive to constraints and utility functions but active and creative, the exercise of the free and creative and (some of us think) God-given will that can say yes, or no.

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

Fly without wings; dream with open eyes.

For a game, you don't need a teacher.

Great poets are great copy editors.

How does one say something new and not retell?

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

There can be no forced inspiration.

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

Our job as writers, as we begin that journey, is to figure out what we can do. Only do what you can do. It's a rule I live by. Among other things, it means I can have novels heavier with dialogue than description. But more important, if you only do what you can do, you never have to worry that someone else is doing it. It keeps you from competing. It keeps you looking inside for what's true rather than outside for what's popular. Ideally. Your writing is your fingerprint.

Writing taught me who I was, because your writing is your fingerprint

My horse is plodding down a path unspooling under her hooves like a ball of wool, only wider, while I think of ways to wake kings or small children or writers, all of whom seem to be constantly sleeping and dreaming of me in the seventh square on a horse with a mind of her own.

I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40 000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'

I think a lot of stuff I find funny is from day dreaming.

The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable that's survival.