It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
I am a creative person, and knew my bigger picture would be writing, directing, and producing; that's what I've always thought I… — Julia Fox Copy Share Image
Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way… — Marilyn Butler Copy Share Image
If 'Nevada' was an original for a certain scene of trans writing, 'Stone Butch Blues' is an original in literature, no qualifications. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is a creative way to engage a young child who is not ready to read books. Imagination is the key to… — Cassie Pope Copy Share Image
I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and… — Dale J. Stephens Copy Share Image
The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so annoying as to be fairly rich, of a fairly good family, pleasing presence, average education, to be "not… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things.… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
We'll be 'outsourcing' our creativity and our thought processes to manufactured components that could be inconspicuously implanted beneath our coiffeurs. Welcome to… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
My family was fine, it's just a different way of going about life. Creativity was not something that was isolated and identified… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
We're in the age of the idea. The organization that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the… — Kevin Roberts Copy Share Image
When the 'weaker' of the two brains (right and left) is stimulated and encouraged to work in cooperation with the stronger side,… — Robert E. Ornstein Copy Share Image
You create a proto-human being out of people that you've encountered in your life, and you start building up this person and… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
“You cannot simply tap your creative nature once and then expect to be done with it. It is a lifelong process: a… — Fran Sorin Copy Share Image
Any time there's a major change, whether it's going into a relationship, getting out of a relationship, moving to a new city,… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Not only as designers, but as creatives, we're all about the importance of creating that super chic space that feels like a… — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image
Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving,… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday… — Denise Linn Copy Share Image
Our individual consciousness is actually part of a larger system. There are many levels of consciousness, and the creativity used in composing… — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
In our willingness to step into the unknown, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we… — William Crashaw Copy Share Image
“It is the function of creative people to perceive relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expressions that seem utterly different,… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
“Rather, it is bearing in mind what is most important to you so that it is not lost or betrayed in the… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Establishing and keeping a routine can be even more important than having a lot of time. Inertia is the death of creativity.” — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
I have my most brilliant and creative ideas when I'm counting sheep. I wish I could nod off but instead my mind… — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the… — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
Truly original thinkers tend not to be entrepreneurs who've spent 10 years at Cisco and can be trusted to know what they're… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image