“My 2am self is someone who I aspire to be like every hour of the day.”— Brandon Woelfel, twitter.com
“It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Creativity has boundaries. Set some clear boundaries to be creative within them. An easy one is time . . . What are you going to do today? And what are you going to achieve in the time blocks within the day? It’s the most productive way. If you don’t plan you’ll probably do nothing.”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com
“I think people in most careers experience this, but writers tend to pathologize it, claiming 'writer’s block' and, like, an absent 'muse' or whatever. I don’t think either of those things are real! Or, if they are, they’re not really excuses to not get anything done.”— Katie Heaney, thecut.com
“And so it’s a slow process, but the easiest answer, the fastest answer, although there’s still a lot of work behind it is, you should just do it honestly! And if you have an idea you always want to put on screen, look at someone who’s already doing it and just do what they do.”— Monty Oum, nerdreactor.com
“Early in my life, I was only concerned with creating, without destination or purpose, creating was the purpose itself. And as reality set in, and the need to survive came with the need to have an identity, I've tried many things in discovering who I am and all of them eventually became useful.”— Monty Oum, crunchyroll.com
“Since I was a child I'd watch shows and play games with the hope of one day creating something like them someday. Then I reached the point in my life with the opportunity to create something.”— Monty Oum, crunchyroll.com
“In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“Does anybody honestly believe that human progress originates in the composite brain of the majority and not in the brain of the individual personality? Or may it be presumed that for the future human civilization will be able to dispense with this as a condition of its existence? But may it not be t…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“I haven’t felt this creative in years and I think it’s spilling over to my way-too-long project list.”— Elsie Larson, abeautifulmess.com
“The key to producing daily is really keeping to a rhythm. People think they don't have time to make artwork, but if you carve out a little chunk of time every day and just do something, you'll find it much easier to produce.”— Matt Maldre, gapersblock.com
“Bears repeating: Creativity that satisfies & affirms your world view is Entertainment. Creativity that challenges & disrupts your world view is Art.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“He realized anger was also a source of power, which the artist ought to convert into creative energy.”— Ha Jin, amazon.com
“I start fighting a war, I guarantee you’ll see something new.”— Joss Whedon, Malcolm Reynolds, Nathan Fillion, imdb.com
“That’s why I make music, because I wanna hear it. That’s the shit I wanna party to, you know?”— Charli XCX, ssense.com
“The job is to do something interesting with ideas, and if it is copied I couldn’t care less.”— Miuccia Prada, nytimes.com