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“Are you considering becoming a creative person? Too late, you already are one. To even call somebody "a creative person" is almost laughably redundant; creativity is the hallmark of our species. We...”
“True art comes from the anonymous self.”
“If you cannot live with hope and create with intention or be kind to a stranger, bury your head. You are not living at all.”
“Creative energy is sacred and divine. Those who are exploring their creativity in the world are ultimately exploring their relationship with all that is sacred.”
“Do what you love to do, and do it with both seriousness and lightness. At least then you will know that you have tried and that--whatever the outcome--you have traveled a noble path.”
“Imagination is a divine creativity.”
“Imagination is a spark of a divine light.”
“As the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches .”
“I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.”
“Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.”
“There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Dont ask, walk!”
“Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it”
“If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life.”
“ mess is the material from which life and creativity are built ”
“Laziness builds walls and fences that keep the mind under control.”
“A scattered mind will produce scattered results.”
“Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and youll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxie...”
“Above and beyond all else it must be borne in mind that hatred tends to dry up the springs of creative thought in the life of the hater, so that his resourcefulness becomes completely focused on th...”
“Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see.”
“Rather than being medicalized or romanticized, mental disorders, or mental dis-eases, should be understood as nothing less or more than what they are, an expression of our deepest human nature. By ...”