#Creativity

"Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded."

"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity"

"Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity."

"To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes."

"The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them."

"Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity."

"Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love."

"I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them."

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."

"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."

"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality."

"I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?"

"The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become."

"When I take a break, even just a brief one, the creative energy flows in. Only then do I have anything of value to share with others. Once I recognized this, I stopped feeling guilty about taking time for myself."

"Don't try to follow trends. Create them."

"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."

"When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing."

"Trying to force creativity is never good."

"The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little."

"To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself."