"Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises."

Leontyne Price

"I can leave the world behind, and focus...  The simplicity of form, the drama of rich, intense colour, the joy of challenge, and the challenge of endurance... The piece, when it is over, is not what is made, but how it is made."

Andrew Kuntz

"Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better."

John Updike

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."

Anna Freud

"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which ones to keep."                                                                    

Scott Adams  

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. "

Emile Zola

"The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity."

Margaret J. Wheatley

"Art is born in attention.  Its midwife is detail."

Julia Cameron

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."

Erich Fromm

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."

A. A. Milne

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."

Ansel Adams

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius

"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."

Benjamin Franklin

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."

Juan Ramòn Jimènez

"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."

Michelangelo

"I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment. "

 Marc Chagall

"True creativity often starts where language ends."

Arthur Koestler