Paracelsus Quotes

A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner-continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you-is a fine art, in and of itself.

You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before-colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.

You are the artist and the art.

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

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

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

Everything you do has certain significance, a certain weight. I think there is a film in everyone.

It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

There is a latent talent in everyone. I am nothing extraordinary just because I happen to be an actor. Everybody is extraordinary in his own way. One must identify one's own talent early on - one is not great merely when he gets recognized by others - and one doesn't become a nobody just because his talent is not widely known.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

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

Whether it's a song or a television show, or a book or poem, art is the thing that cracks me open and encourages me to go on a deeper journey to find my own compassion and empathy and humanity.

What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it.