The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief..

The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it….

Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the o….

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person..

The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought..

The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act..

Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion..

A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women)..