It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.

Creativity is a song of knowledge, imagination, and action.

When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.

Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...

Store up knowledge. Then question your own knowledge in order to expand your mind, both to build and to create more space. Then store up more knowledge. And so on. That is wisdom.

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.

Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Every production must resemble its author.

To make a single poem We need to kill We must kill many things Shoot, murder, poison many of the things we love

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.