The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy.

Something is born, comes into being, something that did not exist before - which is as good a definition of creativity as we can get.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.