I just feel like, unfortunately, I'm a person that has to be creative to live. Whether that's, like, painting or making sculptures or writing songs, sometimes I just feel like that's the only thing you can do.

It's better to dance than to march through life.

Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.

I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.

All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.

What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

I grew up in what you might call a relentlessly creative household. We were given art supplies, music supplies... Our mother knew enough to get us started and then stand back and not meddle. My parents never said to us, 'Don't you think you'll need something to fall back on?' They acted as though creativity was completely normal.

s holding them back and move ahead in the creative direction they desire.

Life is a creative endeavor. It is active, not passive. We are the yeast that leavens our lives into rich, fully baked loaves. When we experience our lives as flat and lackluster, it is our consciousness that is at fault. We hold the inner key that turns our lives from thankless to fruitful. That key is "Blessing.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.