Color is one way the eye and the brain work together to define the external world. However, not all cultures see color in the same way, nor do they give it as much importance as in western culture.

Get in touch with yourself. The fountain of creativity begins with the stream of conscious thought flowing inside you. Open the floodgate and creative ideas come rushing out.

Every human being has creative powers. You were born to create. Appreciate your inborn potential.

Positive attitude accelerates your development as a creative person. Believe in yourself.

Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool.

When you finish for the day, write a note reminding yourself of what you plan to do next. This helps you to remember today's great idea when you get back to work tomorrow.

Pay attention to the inner voice that tells you when something feels right. Much of your creative problem-solving occurs at an unconscious level.

Creativity needs to be exercised to grow strong.

Take imagination breaks... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be learned.

Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.

If you persist in ignoring your intuition, you may find yourself stuck in a permanent holding pattern instead of taking the risks that lead to creative growth.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

No man will ever be a big executive who feels that he must, either openly or under cover, follow up every order he gives and see that it is done-nor will he ever develop a capable assistant.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war thats based on religion.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.