Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of us, steer clear of these mindsets to make us see things anew.

Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.

We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.

When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.

My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.