Creativity is a force moving through us, and only through practice do we learn how to cooperate with it. The 'process' is like a muscle. It needs to be exercised in order to function effortlessly.

Art is an articulator of the soul's uncensored purpose and deepest will.

It, (creativity) requires an inclination to step into the unknown, as well as the ability to persist when there is no end in sight.

Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.

Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.

Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit.

Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways to the creative imagination. No one is excluded.

We can only learn about creativity through our own experience of it.

A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.

The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Security breeds stagnation.

I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.

I've gotten "condescending" a million times, and that's not good.

Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.

I don't support hate speech. I don't want to support a racist football team or bands that are offensive.

Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.