Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
Forever is composed of nows.
My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.
Art is the proper task of life.
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
A teacher should have a creative mind.
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
In the end, we’ll all become stories.
Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.
Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.
I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.
The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.