Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

Every human being is an artist

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.

Creativity is absolutely for everyone. I firmly believe this. I think if you're the driest accountant with the plastic pocket pen protector it's in how you interact with the world. There is artistry in everything that we do and there is expression in everything that we do.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.

I believe in creative work.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

I just like being versatile, giving new styles and being creative.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

I think creativity is a capability of human being. When we're born, we're - all of us has this capability. But part of us forget to use it.

In my mind, creativity is consciousness.

I feel that all girls like clothes and I'm more of a creative person. If it's writing the album or developing the makeup range, it's just about being creative. That for me is where I am happiest.

You just get satisfaction from achieving something that you just don't get in any other way than from being creative.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.