Attention to detail Quote by Robert Greene

“it’s not just the change of environment or seeking of quiet that enables more depth. The dominant force is the psychology of committing so…

— Cal Newport

“Creative people have to be fundamentally egoistic. This may sound pompous, but it happens to be the truth. People who live their lives watching…

— Haruki Murakami

It isn't a hunch but the subconscious mind, which is the creative mind, at work. That is the mind which makes artists do things…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“Artists frequently hide the steps that lead to their masterpieces. They want their work and their career to be shrouded in the mystery that…

— Matthew Weiner

“That may be true, but it’s not the point. Designers learn to have lots of wild ideas because they know that the number one…

— Bill Burnett

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other…

— Thomas Hardy

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

— Anthony Browne

Creativity suffers under great scrutiny from ourselves or others.

— Sark

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have…

— Mike D

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes,…

— Giorgio Vasari

Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all…

— Iris Apfel

“Thus discernment, artistic or otherwise, is a critical skill, and yet it can be something we take for granted, in part because we do…

— Kevin Simler