Art & Creativity Sayings

I’m going to start eating nothing but air and sunshine.

I'll kill myself onstage one day, and that'll be my greatest performance.

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

If you can't find any hope—create some.

I have always made it a point to prefer an ugly woman who interests me to a beauty who bores me.

There is but One God. His Name is Truth. He is the Creator. He fears none. He is without enmity. He is timeless, unborn, self-existent. By the Guru's Grace, He is met.

No matter what nationalities became a part of our country in the future, they would have to assimilate into the Han nationality. The nationalism our party supports is a positive nationalism. Do not forget that.

Also, I do seem attracted to trash, as if the clue--the clue--lies there. I'm always ferreting out elliptical points, odd angles. What I write doesn't make a whole lot of sense. There is fun and religion and psychotic horror strewn about like a bunch…

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot tell. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

There are no frontiers in this struggle to the death. We cannot remain indifferent in the face of what occurs in any part of the world. A victory for any country against imperialism is our victory, just as any defeat of any country is our defeat.

The art of leadership consists of consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

The intuitive idea is that since everyone's well-being depends upon a scheme of cooperation without which no one could have a satisfactory life, the division of advantages should be such as to draw forth the willing cooperation of everyone taking par…

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing suffering upon other creatures, so far as it is within our power.

Sometimes I’m writing a dissent, and I’m thinking, ‘This is not going to persuade anybody. But maybe it will persuade a future court.’ My dissents are often not aimed at my colleagues, but at the future.

The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

The United States is our enemy. But the American people are not our enemy. They are our friends. They are good people. They are good workers. They are good farmers. They are good scientists. They are good engineers. They are good artists. They are go…

I'm a musician.

I'm the creator.