“Creativity is all about CRAZY-tivity!”

“You don’t have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.”

“Creating a better futureRequires creativity in the present.”

“Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.”

“I’m not trying to tell you,” he said “that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It’s not so.But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with–which, unfortunately, is rarely the case–tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are MEREly brilliant and creative.”

“Designing Structures is an art and this needs to be transparent, as designs come and go but creativity stays there”

“I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don’t normally get to go.”

“(about William Blake)As for Blake’s happiness–a man who knew him said: “If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me.”And yet this creative power in Blake did not come from ambition. …He burned most of his own work. Because he said, “I should be sorry if I had any earthly fame, for whatever natural glory a man has is so much detracted from his spiritual glory. I wish to do nothing for profit. I wish to live for art. I want nothing whatever. I am quite happy.”…He did not mind death in the least. He said that to him it was just like going into another room. On the day of his death he composed songs to his Maker and sang them for his wife to hear. Just before he died his countenance became fair, his eyes brightened and he burst into singing of the things he saw in heaven. ”

“The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.”

“It is through imagination that we transcend understanding and travel into the world of possibilities.”

“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”

“Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.”

“Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.”