Character Quote by John Gardner

“He figured that all the threads of his experience would eventually be sewn together, taking shape in harmony and form to create a glorious…

— Adriana Trigiani

“Only art as meditation reminds people so that they will never forget that the most beautiful thing a potter produces is...the potter.”

— Matthew Fox

“To plunge one thing into the shape or nature of another is a fundamental gesture of creative insight, part of how we make for…

— Jane Hirshfield

“For when one has set his heart upon an idea—which is, perhaps, nothing but the creation of his own fancy, as unsubstantial as the…

— G.H. Pember

“The creative person has to dissolve all should and should nots. He needs freedom and space, vast space; he needs the whole sky and…

— Osho

“...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it up like…

— Marcel Proust

“The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at the same…

— Richard Rohr

“The man of imagination who turns to art for release and fulfilment of his baby promises contends with the sky through the layers of…

— William Carlos WIlliams

“He has discovered the truths that keep writers chained to their desks: the primacy of the inner life and the sheer exhilaration of creating…

— Barbara Klein Moss

“I’ve heard enough Potter explanations throughout the years to know the general shape of them, anyway.”

— G. Norman Lippert

“So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of the master's mind, Where a new world leaps out at his command, And…

— Alexander Pope

“Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald