Creativity

"... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think."

"I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination."

"Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."

"I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd."

"You must understand that your creativity comes alive when you spend time alone focusing on your projects without distractions."

"Run! Go perfect your crafts. Run! Go use your creativity."

"It turns out there is only one possible thing to do in this circumstance, to wait the only way there is to wait through eternity, and that is through creativity."

"His body and his soul appeared to have the strange ability to repel the hours, just as, inversely, a magnet attracts metal. Everything spun about him and fled; he was always the sole centre of an enormous circumference. He kept moving forwards, body and soul, in the hope of coming close to what fled at his approach. The same thing happened with time – his position remained constant in relation to the thing which, however hard he tried to clasp it to him, stole away from him and bounded into the distance. He was the one who had no incriminating papers in his drawers, who could show his diary to anyone. He was a creator. Perhaps that was why his life did not exist"

"Creativity is the residue of time wasted."

"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne."

"The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored."

"When we give ourselves permission to go wherever our outlandish thoughts take us, we feel that rush of creativity and excitement."

"there was nothing to be ashamed of in doing jobs simply to make a living, so long as those jobs fueled other creative efforts"

"Every impression ever made on a person from newborn babyhood onwards will contribute to the shape and texture of the imagination."

"Imagination is an extraordinary resource within each of us with powers not found in ordinary thought processes."

"Imagination can turn any situation into a positive situation. Let your creativity run wild. Let yourself create new worlds, new times and new thoughts. Don't think yourself immature for having fun in dull times. Let that creativity flow into your everyday life and create beautiful new experiences."

"(The subjects of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life) "have convinced me that past failing can as easily prove preparatory as predictive. Age does not of itself limit on enable us. The choice is ours."

"Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something."

"If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof."

"Sometimes, to love people, I must completely avoid them. Sometimes, to be strong, I must completely fall apart. Sometimes, to create, I must completely destroy."