Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek. |

When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. So create. |

To find ideas, find problems. To find problems, talk to people. |

In all beginnings dwells a Magic Force. |

The value of an idea lies in the using of it. |

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism. |

After all these years, I have come to realise that I must go through a period of agony and torture before I have a breakthrough. |

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. |

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. |

Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties. |

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism. |

Art is a disorder, to diss order. |

Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world. |

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. |

This world is but a canvas to our imagination. |

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. |

Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it. |

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. |

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. |

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. |

Mistakes are the portals of discovery. |

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper. |

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write. |

To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing. |