All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, "You are looking at somebody now." For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

Courage is required not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom, but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility.

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.