“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time”.
~Thomas Merton

“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely,
more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”
― Leonard Bernstein 

“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
― Albert Einstein

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it,
bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.”
― Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity