Let us not follow where the path may lead. Let us go instead where there is no path and leave a  trail.

Japanese proverb

 

The mind ought to sometimes be diverted that  it may return the better to thinking.

Phaedrus, Roman fabulist

 

I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with, because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than everything is calculated, every action analyzed and every responsibility assigned by an organization chart.

Akio Morita, founder of Sony Corp

 

The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap in between what is and what could be (which means of course, that he has achieved a certain measure of detachment from what is).

John W. Gardner, teacher, cabinet official

 

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

Immanuel Kant, philosopher

 

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me, the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die-- whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

Gilda Radner, actress

 

An artist must possess nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

Henri Matisse, French artist, author