Thoughts on Creatvity & the Arts

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world that in the stock markets or the debates in congress.
Hedrick Willem Van Loon / The Arts

I want to make things that are beautiful and moving. I want to make art; they want to make things that are fast and useful, practical.
Laurie Anderson

An artist needs only three things. First he needs encouragement, the second he needs encouragement, and third he needs encouragement.
Unknown

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.
Thomas Merton

I cannot understand why people are afraid of new ideas. I am afraid of the old ones.
John Cage

There are two fools in every market: One ask to little and, one ask to much.
Russian Proverb

To teach is to show
M.C. Richards

God’s word is in all creation, visible and invisible. The word is living, being, spirit, a verdant greening of creativity. The word manifests in every creature.
Hildegard of Bingen

Man lives by images.
Gaston Bachelard

The imagination seldom sleeps. It is very busy seeking the new.
Gaston Bachelard

Imagination is so vast, so large, so free that is grows our souls and allows us to contemplate grandeur.
Gaston Bachelard

I am happiest when I am caught up in and lost in acts of creativity.
Meister Eckhart

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh

At the heart of our dignity lies our power of creativity.
Otto Rank

We write to taste life twice.
Anais Nin

Creativity is our real nature.
Matthew Fox