Creativity and Inspiration

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered either by themselves or by others.

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour by hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. “

I was originally supposed to become an engineer, but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.

The artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and … he does it without destroying something else.

Then, rising with Aurora’s light,

Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is.

We haven’t got the money, so we’ve got to think!

Tching prayed on the mountain and wrote MAKE IT NEW

As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first.

The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statue, at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

Tenet insanabile multos