Creativity

"Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense—the creative act."           - Kenneth Rexroth ...

"The only sin is mediocrity." - Martha Graham ...

"You're only given a little spark of madness.  You mustn't lose it." - Robin Williams ...

"You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, ...

"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge." - Pablo Picasso ...

"There is no surer way of evading the world than by Art, and no surer way of uniting with it than by Art." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...

“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.” - J.D. Salinger ...

"Music is the epitome of words that our soul would speak if it had a verbal language." ...

"I remembered a story of how Bach was approached by a young admirer one day and asked, 'But, Papa Bach, how do you manage to think of all these new tunes?' 'My dear fellow,' Bach is said to have answered, ...

"All great innovation is built on rejection." - Louis-Ferdinand Céline ...