creativity

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.

Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we to play of imagination is incalculable.

There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts . . . the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.

The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.