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“...Maybe its like this, Max--you know how, when you are working on a long and ordered piece, all sorts of bright and lovely ideas and images intrude. They have no place in what you are writing, and...”
“I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.”
“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird-- that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace--making the complicated simp...”
“Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.”
“Creativity is not any accumulated knowledge, coming from past to the present. The stage of creation is a spontaneous flash of intelligence, Energy merging with mind, to create a new beginning. Crea...”
“You don't have to reinvent the wheel... just steel the hubcaps.”
“My world is about FEELings. Sometimes, these feelings run so deep i fear i will drown.Creatively, it's a dream to be so sensitive. In real life, it's exhausting, as i tread water to keep myself fro...”
“People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.”
“Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground.”
“Sanity is transmuting all the insane parts of your brain into a creative outlet.”
“Nestled in the valley of darkness, in the deepest depths of depression, are the priceless gems of; creativity, intuition and sensitivity. The trick is learning how to navigate the dark, so these pr...”
“I would follow in your footsteps if I wasn't so busy making my own.”
“My art is largely made up of my pain; re-framed, redesigned and re-purposed. It's a mutually beneficial experience for both the creator and the beholder. Transformative healing is a beautiful process.”
“The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our task as writers is to share what we know of the human spirit, we suddenly discover that we wer...”
“Someday, i dream we will medically address mental illness in a way that helps people WITHOUT completely crippling them, creatively or robbing them of their precious sensitivity. No one wants to liv...”
“Today, the world rewards those with creative and intellectual muscles. So, women and skinny men need to shut up and start thinking.”
“Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know wed die, wed wander around and sleep like cats.”
“When I stay in one Place, I can hardly think at all; my body had to be on the move to set my mind going." Jean-Jacques Rousseau.”
“Live life with creative purpose.”
“Its my opinion that only in times of utter depression or lofty peace is it appropriate to be creative.”
