There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has read more

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer read more

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke.

Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas read more

Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. 2. Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time...not light years ahead. 3. Always look for a second right answer. 4. If at first you don't succeed, take a break. 5. Write down your ideas before you forget them. 6. If everyone says you are wrong, you're one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you're two steps ahead. 7. The answer to your problem "pre-exists." You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer. 8. When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer. 9. Never solve a problem from its original perspective. 10. Visualize your problem as solved before solving it.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you read more

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my read more

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is read more

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.