Tagged: creativity
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” – Anais Nin, Diary entry July 7, 1934
“All that matters is that we continue … living our lives as the ultimate creative expression of who we really are.” — Janine Shepherd
“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
“If you are willing to do something that might not work, then you are closer to becoming an artist.” -Seth Godin
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” -Cecil Beaton, The Unexpergated Beaton
“There is a vitality life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivated you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatsoever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.” -Martha Graham, from Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” -Joseph Chilton Pearce
“I feel that there is nothing more artistic than to love people.” -Vincent van Gogh
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” -Mary Oliver
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