“Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.”— Laurie Halse Anderson, amazon.com
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com
“Art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.”— Simon Zingerman, amazon.com
“Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.”— Aberjhani, amazon.com
“That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.”— Zoe Whittall, amazon.com
“A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”— Julian Barnes, amazon.com
“Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.”— Twyla Tharp, amazon.com
“The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.”— Robert Greene, amazon.com
“Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.”— Criss Jami, amazon.com
“Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.”— Keri Smith, amazon.com
“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”— Aberjhani, amazon.com
“When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.”— Justina Chen, amazon.com