This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit ...
As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people's lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write, to have an impact on society, to put a personal stamp on history. . .Art and literature are the legacies we leave to succeeding generati...
An endless series of gambits backed by gigantic investments encouraged young people entering the online world for the first time to create standardized presences on sites like Facebook. Commercial interests promoted the widespread adoption of standar...
Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God's transforming power touches me can I begin to live the simpler, freer, fresher, mor...
When we work creatively and productively with others, our experience of meaning can be profound. When we work directly for the good of others, meaning deepens in ways that reward us beyond measure. Whenever we go beyond satisfying our own personal ne...
DeathWish: You spent some time working with Courtney Love and Billy Corgan on a creative level, how did this experience help your growth as an artist? EA: It didn't -- it stunted it entirely. I gave up over a year of my life and career helping Billy ...
Last Saturday night I was in a club on the South Side of Chicago listening to live rock music and talking to a guitar playing veteran of the music scene in the city. He looked and talked like the musicians that I recall from my childhood; he was a th...
What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.
I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.
History tells creativity is a result of Soul song.
Creatively Outspoken and Dramatically Quiet
Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.
I worked with the best - Givenchy, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent - and it gave me an ability to be confident. It turned me into a CEO and a creative director and a brand.
The period of time just before you awaken is the time I have my most creative thoughts and discover the best solutions.
The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.
In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.
Books deliver information so that experience has a chance to exercise creativity.
