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The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

The value of the art must be indicated by something more than how many people like it or how much money it earns. This can be particularly difficult for Americans, who so often find their identity in what they are paid to do.

The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.

The world may hate you for being different, but the universe adores you for being yourself.

Things you crave for won't come if you cry, but when you craft and create. Creativity digs up the buried gold.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.

Thinking outside of the box is unnecessary when there are no boxes in your imagination.

This sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.

Thinking outside of the box is better than suffocating inside of one.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

To avoid surprises later, spend enough time to know people initially. Don't just ask the obvious. Go the extra mile... Be creative and unconventional...

This might be the most important question for every creator and maker in the world: how do you make something new if most people just like what they know? Is it possible to surprise with familiarity?

To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.

Too many peoples creative licenses have been either suspended or completely revoked. Gotta renew those licenses!

Too many people have either let their creative license expire or its been suspended.

Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius.

Thoughts have creative energy exhilaration is required to creates dissolves and recreates.

To push the boundaries of your reality, you have to push the boundaries of your mind.

Untamed thinking turns your life into a new art form. Dare to be an artist.

Untamed thinking turns your reality into a wild expedition.

Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.

Utilise the combined power of creative consciousness of the heart, mind and higher self to manifest, modify and manage your total reality. Create a state of Bliss where everything is in perfect balance.

Walker-thinkers have found various ways to accommodate the gifts that their walking brings. Caught paperless on his walks in the Czech enclaves of Iowa, maestro Dvořák scribbles the string quartets that visited his brain on his starched white shirt cuffs (so the legend goes). More proactively, Thomas Hobbes fashioned a walking stick for himself with an inkwell attached, and modern poet Mary Oliver leaves pencils in the trees along her usual pathways, in case a poem descends during her rambles.

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.

We must seek out that which invigorates us, and engage it at all fronts. Art, music, literature, conversation, travel, nature—whatever it is that keeps the fire of our spirit bright—we must build our life around it; for, without our passions, the years ahead become a burden rather than a gift.

What if, as an act of worship, creating something meant healing and restoration took place instead of pain and frustration?

Umutsuz bir aşk çökmüşse gönlüne sabahın üçünde, özellikle onun orada, yerinde olmadığı kuşkusuna kapıldığında telefon etmeyi gururuna yediremiyorsan, ister istemez içe dönüp kendinle baş başa kalırsın; o anda akrep gibi sokarsın kendini ya da hiçbir zaman postalamayacağın mektuplar yazarsın ona, ya da odanda ileri geri volta atarsın, hem küfür hem dua edersin, sarhoş olursun ya da kendini öldürecekmiş gibi davranırsın. Bu gidişat bir süre sonra tatsızlaşır, bıktırır insanı. Yaratıcı biriysen -ama unutma , o anda boktan bir durumdasın- acılı anılardan ortaya elle tutulur bir şeyler çıkarabilir miyim diye sorarsın kendi kendine. Ve işte bir gece saat üç sularında başıma gelen tam buydu. Birden karar vermiştim , çektiğim acıyı tuvale dökecektim..

Tune in to the intuitive and creative abilities of the heart. They are the essence of who you are and who you wish to become.

What would you say to someone that, erm, that said to you, this is a psychiatric hospital, and that you’re a patient here, and that I am your psychiatrist? Don Juan: I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.

What if the link or key to healing was through finding your unique personal creative outlet?

When it comes to creating things, I compete with nature not with men.

When I was bartering to gain clients, I was self-sabotaging my business. I wasn’t making money, and the promised “exchange of advertising” wasn’t helping to grow my business.

When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation, creative imagination. Without them, you are lost.

When you are happy, you are free; when you are free, you can be creative; when you are creative, your divine self comes out.

Writers and people who had command of words were respected and feared as people who manipulated magic. In latter times I think that artists and writers have allowed themselves to be sold down the river. They have accepted the prevailing belief that art and writing are merely forms of entertainment. They’re not seen as transformative forces that can change a human being; that can change a society. They are seen as simple entertainment; things with which we can fill 20 minutes, half an hour, while we’re waiting to die.

What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.

Wherever there is fear, there is creative treasure. Something important lies buried.

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to "wrapping one of his romantic flings in cellophane" for later artistic use and notes that "this kind of heartless but honest professionalism is not uncommon among creative people.

Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.

While you are not responsible for the actions of another, you are able to consciously respond to everything in your reality. Your power to respond is your power to create.

Yet, as creators we tend to be more mindful of the fruit than the tree. If the fruit is rotten, we tend to criticize the apple rather than looking at the branches from which the apple fell, the roots of the tree or the soil from which the tree draws nourishment. An orange is an orange because it comes from an orange tree. Our art is the product of who we are. If we think the fruit needs to be sweeter, bigger, more nourished, we must pick up our watering can and pruning sheers and turn our eyes not just to the fruit, but to the very tree and its roots-to the soil that we are planted in and the nutrients that we draw our inspiration from.

You are an original masterpiece; imitating someone else diminishes your value.

You are magnificent - a jewel reflecting inwardly and outwardly, the light of the universe. Observe how you respond to beauty everywhere - you bear witness to everything. Be aware that you, yourself, are an inextricable part of the infinite creative intelligence, and be blessed.

You are your brand. You're really the product. Just be yourself. Market YOU. That's what people are really looking for. Someone to connect with. The product you offer - whether book, songs, etc...that becomes secondary. A bonus added to the connection.

You are your brand. You're really the product. Just be yourself. Market YOU. That's what people are really looking for. Someone to connect with. The product you offer - whether books, songs, etc...that becomes secondary. A bonus added to the connection. People want someone to follow. To look up to. To feel a connection with.

You can become 1) more creative by 2) getting new inputs by 3) enjoying new experiences to 4) make new connections to 5) solve your problems with polymathic thinking.⁣

You can’t let fear and indecision sink your creativity— they do not easily release their hold.