Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, “I’d like my crayons back, please.”
-Hugh MacLeod
I experimented and drew with my non-dominant (right) hand.
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
-Martha Graham
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
-Jules Verne
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.
-Proverb
Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. Just as a lotus flower springs from the mire to bloom splendidly, the interaction of the cosmic breath causes the flower of the spirit to bloom and bear fruit in this world.
-Morihei Ueshiba
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.-Kahlil Gibran
Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I’m halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God. I could be eating a slow learner…
-Lynda Montgomery
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
–Carl Sandburg
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
-Robert Frost
The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.
-Robert B. Laughlin
If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.
-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi