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It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.
Sep 29, 2025
There seems to be art and creativity everywhere, whether it was in the galleries of Jaffa or along the streets of Jerusalem ... the creativity blows my mind because you can see that people want to live their lives to the fullest.
Lady Gaga is not a diva, and she's not crazy. She's just an incredibly nice, down-to-earth person who really cares about art and creativity. It's pretty amazing to be able to work with her. I'm pretty grateful for that.
I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence the 'Fascination' in the title of the essay, the fascination of art and creativity, stands in opposition to what is called 'Liberation'.
I serve with my art and creativity. That makes me most happy.
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.
Life is about trying things to see if they work.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace.
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.
Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.