What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation. Oliver Sacks
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. Oliver Sacks
Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again. Greg Bear
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. George Lois
Hands, do what you’re bid: Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed. Jeremy Keith
Go into the Arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Kurt Vonnegut
Companies don’t have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other. Margaret Heffernan
