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

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

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.

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.

I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.

What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have.

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

I read a lot of 'Spark Notes' in high school.

It is not confused. We are.

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.

No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God; But oh, I hope to God that He, Unswervingly believes in me.