Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is…

“Freedom is that which comes from knowledge, the freedom that comes from curiosity, the freedom that comes from the times when the first man…

— Massimo Marino

“The fact that nothing is certain, and we therefore can’t hold on to anything, can evoke fear and depression in the mind. But it…

— Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

— Max Nordau

I think when you get to export your creative impulse into something, it kind of lessens that busy energy that can be so confrontational…

— George Saunders

We wanted to create an opportunity for people to share anything, on their own terms, revenue and all. Get away from the commerce side…

— Aaron Dessner

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality.

— Mark Ryan

Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.'…

— Jonah Lehrer

I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that there is,…

— Quentin S. Crisp

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

— V. S. Pritchett

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative…

— Eric Hoffer

“I have long considered the creative impulse to be a visit-a thing of grace, perhaps. Not commanded, owned, so much as awaited, prepared for.…

— Loreena McKennitt

From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very…

— Carl Jung

“In life, there are brief and momentary opportunities that ask us to assert our existence. Although a creative impulse, they can be destructive, because…

— Kamand Kojouri

There was always a creative impulse in me but I never felt rooted to anything.

— Fred Ward