“Your personality is not just a matter of what you know about yourself, but what others know about you. You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you--finish you--as much as you create you. When you're gone, the ones y…”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“The definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“We create history by our observation, rather than history creating us.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“Music moves with the times. It’s not something we have to consciously do. This is what’s happening in the world — not only to me but to my community. Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally. And this is where we’re at. When you look at other artists doing the same thing, it’s of the…”— Kendrick Lamar, nytimes.com
“This album did what I wanted it to do...That’s not necessarily to sell tons of records — though it didn’t do bad at that either — but to actually have an impact on the people and on the culture of music.”— Kendrick Lamar, nytimes.com
“Contrary to some of our great myths, the universe was not created once upon a time, but rather is constantly being created and re-created.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.'”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“I thought about the notebooks I filled up in high school, the ones that I’m still too scared to open up and revisit, not because I think my bad writing will make me cringe, but because I’m afraid my bad writing will make me yearn to write like that again—and I don’t mean writing poems that compare m…”— Jenny Zhang, rookiemag.com
“I have to believe that the stories I write are true. I don’t care if they are real, but I have to believe that they’re true. I know that reality and truth are not always the same thing. I’m not interested in reality, but I have a great interest in truth. I have to believe that the story I write ever…”— Christos Ikonomou, blog.pshares.org
“As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them — to restock the trout pond, so to speak. I call this process 'filling the well.' Filling the well involves the active pursuit of images to refresh our arti…”— Julia Cameron, amazon.com
“You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you…”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“I think it is very important for people to run away...from home, from the mainstream, from their family, from the culture, from the society that produced them...because the moment I have to learn something new, like new habits, new languages, I myself have something like a rebirth. I reduce myself t…”— Saul Steinberg, youtube.com
“Talent is the ability to make something that is more stunning than human presence.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“We create the meaning of events. The meaning is and always was artificial. We make it.”— Carl Jung, amazon.com
“Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature... Would you consent to be the architect on t…”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Karamazov, amazon.com
“God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain.”— James Joyce, Stephen Dedalus, amazon.com