The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident that many creative people--including Dante, Pascal, Goethe, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Beethoven, Rilke, Blake, and Van Gogh--...
Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the end the question can only be answered by action. Do it or don't do it. It may help to think of it this way. If you were meant to cure cancer or wri...
Self-conciousness is the enemy of all creativity.
Hacks didn't destroy, they just...creatively amended.
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.
But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
Creativity is in the heart of the dreamer.
Love where there is no reason to love
... Hate isn't creative." - Dr. Stillinglfeet, Pg. 247
Copyright Promotes Creativity by Proscribing the Right to Copy
Doubt is the only reliable source of creativity.
The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.
I've come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome.
Working with someone is the best way to get to know someone, especially if it's a creative endeavor.
Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative.
People are generally badly advised when they're starting out in the creative field.
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.
