Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you. ~ Judith Jamison ~ Main Menu Home Page About Ron Balagot Article Archive Ebooks Useful Links Contact User Menu Bookmark This Site Add This Site To Social Bookmarking Services Recommend This Site To Friends Print This Page Search This Site RSS Feed Subscribe To This Site's RSS Feed        If you're not familiar with RSS, you can find out more about it and its benefits by clicking here. Inspiring Quotes A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is ultimately to be at peace with himself. ~ Abraham Maslow ~ A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. ~ Seneca ~ It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery ~ It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. ~ Eric Hoffer ~ Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~ People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. ~ John Sculley ~ The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail. ~ Edwin H. Land ~ Another word for creativity is courage. ~ George Prince ~ It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. ~ Edward de Bono ~ In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it. ~ Julia Cameron ~ Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open. ~ Thomas R. Dewar ~ Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ~ Erich Fromm ~ We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. ~ Bertrand Russell ~ Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. ~ Brian Aldiss ~ Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness. ~ C. Neil Strait ~ All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination? ~ Carl Jung ~ Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. ~ Carl Jung ~ The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. ~ Charles Dickens ~ The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. ~ Edward Albee ~ Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. ~ Edward De Bono ~ Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. ~ Erich Fromm ~ Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you. ~ Judith Jamison ~ My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self-actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing. ~ Abraham Maslow ~ Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself. ~ Willa Cather ~ A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. ~ Frank Capra ~ Creativity is simply the energy of making something where there was nothing before. We do this every day, in so many unmarked ways. ~ Fran Sorin ~ The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. ~ Jackson Pollock ~ Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. ~ Mary Lou Cook ~ Creative activity is one of the few self rewarding activities. Being creative is like being in love! ~ Woody Flowers ~ From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~ It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it. ~ Lady Bird Johnson ~ Don’t stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren’t room for creativity, the patent office would close down. ~ Debbi Fields ~ If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning. The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living. ~ Marion Woodman ~ You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you? ~ Dag Hammarskjöld ~ Creativity is the joy of not knowing it all. ~ Ernie J. Zelinski ~ Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery. ~ Louie Pasteur ~ Sometimes we become so entangled in the mundane facts of our lives that we forget about our creative nature until it starts nagging us with reminders of its needs or until we feel so fractured we know something is wrong. ~ Anne Hazard Aldrich ~ The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. ~ Carl Jung ~ When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. ~ John W. Gardner ~ To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce ~ The only limits are, as always, those of vision. ~ James Broughton ~ To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. ~ George Kneller ~ Love is always creative, fear always destructive. ~ Emmet Fox ~ Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives...[and] when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ~ Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind. ~ Robert Toth ~ While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness. ~ Gilda Radner ~ It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. ~ Brenda Ueland ~ Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. ~ Erich Fromm ~ Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. ~ Earl Nightingale ~ No great thing is created suddenly. ~ Epictetus ~ To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. ~ Matthew Arnold ~ Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. ~ Gail Sheehy ~ Creativity takes courage. ~ Henri Matisse ~ Life changes when we change. ~ Andrew Matthews ~ Every exit is an entry somewhere else. ~ Tom Stoppard ~ There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. ~ Sophia Loren ~ Imagination is the beginning of creation. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. ~ Bill Cosby ~ With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun. ~ Anonymous ~ Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world! ~ Joel Arthur ~ If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen. ~ Cher ~ Be not afraid of learning slowly, be afraid of standing still. ~ Unknown ~ It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well. ~ Rene Descartes ~ The human mind once stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~ What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~ If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, as an artist, will answer you, "I am here to live out loud." ~ Emile Zola ~ Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. ~ Samuel Johnson ~ He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet. ~ Joseph Joubert ~ Creativity consists of coming up with many ideas, not just that one great idea. ~ Charles Thompson ~ The world is but a canvas to our imaginations. ~ Henry Thoreau ~ I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be daring as well. For all serious daring starts from within. ~ Eudora Welty ~ Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love. ~ Truman Capote ~ Who am I? the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out. ~ Agnes de Mille ~ You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born… ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~ In art, as in life, everything is possible so long as it is based on love. ~ Marc Chagall ~ A man's work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. ~ Albert Camus ~ The purpose of art is to heal. I believe that every person is a special kind of artist, rather than the common belief that artists are special kinds of people. ~ Samuel Avital ~ Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. ~ Samuel Butler ~ Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. ~ Stella Adler ~ Let the beauty we love be what we do. ~ Rumi ~ The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. ~ Friedrich Nietzche ~ The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow. ~ Kurt Vonnegut ~ And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ~ Erica Jong ~ He who tries can fail. But he who doesn't try, already has. ~ Unknown ~ "You see things: you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never are: and say 'Why not?'" ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ If you can dream it, you can do it. ~ Walt Disney ~ There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. ~ Buckminster Fuller ~ Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. ~ Charles Du Bois ~ Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~ Scott Adams ~ Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything. ~ X. Doudan ~ Other people may not have had high expectations for me...but I had high expectations for myself. ~ Shannon Miller ~ Recognize that when others criticize you, they do so out of fear. But you can be sure that inside each of them is a "spirit" secretly applauding you for breaking free and wishing they had the courage to do the same. Be their inspiration! ~ T. Harv Eker ~ Follow your own star! ~ Dante (Alighieri) ~ I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas. ~ Ken Mason ~ It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others. ~ Orison Swett Marden ~ As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well. ~ Steffi Graf ~ To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun? ~ Katherine Graham ~ Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. ~ Napoleon Hill ~ Live it and you'll become it. ~ Peter Bowerman ~ Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. ~ Gail Sheehy ~ The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. ~ John J.B. Morgan and Ewing T. Webb ~ You have not done enough, you have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something to contribute. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld ~ It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. ~ Moliére ~ Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. ~ Proverbs 3:27, King James Bible ~ I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. ~ Flannery O'Connor ~ The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else. ~ Geoffrey Gaberino ~ Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. ~ Leon J. Suenens ~ You must commit 100% to winning. And that means, you must cut off all routes of escape. ~ Bruce Jenner ~ I visualized where I wanted to be, what kind of player I wanted to become. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there. ~ Michael Jordan ~ The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. ~ Vince Lombardi ~ Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it. ~ Orison Swett Marden ~ You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work. ~ Susanna Clark ~ The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger ~ The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave! ~ Timothy Luce ~ It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. ~ Alan Cohen ~ You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. ~ Marcus Aurelius ~ Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. ~ Proverbs 3:5-6, King James Bible ~ (Example of the power of prayer, faith, and gratitude...) So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me. I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me." When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go." ~ John 11:41-44, World English Bible ~ * To pause the above scroller, simply place the mouse cursor anywhere on the scroller's yellow background. * To view all 118 inspiring quotes, just click here. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. ~ Friedrich Nietzche ~   Recommend This Site Your Name: Your Email: Friends' Email Addresses (at least one) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Your Message (optional)

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