Timothy Leary Quotes

Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.

Human beings aren't meant to be solely consumers - eventually, something has to come out. Otherwise, I don't really see what the point of all that consumption is. The idea behind watching things and listening to things is that it stirs something within you, and hopefully that will stimulate you to then create your own thing.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

I'm ready to create.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

I'm a bit of a strange human being - I love to work. I love art. I love self-expression.

You just get satisfaction from achieving something that you just don't get in any other way than from being creative.

The more time you have, you should dedicate it to do creative work.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

I wake up with new dreams every day...more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me.

Creativity is the power to act.

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.

At moments we are all artists.

I think meditation helps greatly with creativity. If it's a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it's going to shine. It's going to resonate.

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.

Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

Art is born in attention.

Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.