Baltasar Gracian Quotes

So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world.

I have to be creative to be happy.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

Using one's imagination to the fullest is necessary for a happy life.

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

Play is the exultation of the possible.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

Happiness is an inside job.

It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially.

I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative.

Think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.

People create from different places. Some love to create from a tortured place, some from a joyful place. And when I feel like I'm a 5-year-old kid in my backyard playing pretend, that's when I'm happiest.

When you do what you love, you do not feel the pressure.

It's very joyful to be in a productive, creative mood, but I find a lot of joy in learning and being told stories.

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.