All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.
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Quotes tagged ‘Creativity’
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
My life will be the best illustration of all my work.
Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.
— banksy, amazon.com
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken…
We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.
I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.
Every human being is an artist.
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
— Rumi, amazon.com
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, you…
Creativity takes courage.
Nothing is more creative nor destructive than a brilliant mind with a purpose.
To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.
I feel more and more every day, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds.
A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world…
We create as a means to become complete, yet creativity is infinite.
Creativity takes courage.