“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity”

Charles Mingus

“There is no perfection only life.”

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

“Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practiced and nurtured.”

Edward de Bono

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world – all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful […]

“The more often a stupidity is repeated,
the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.”

François-Marie Arouet

(1694-1778, better known by his nom de plume Voltaire –
French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher)

“How people treat you is their karma,  how you react is yours.”

Unknown, possibly Wayne Dyer

Pic credit: Flower Power, 1967, photographed by Bernie Boston on October 21, 1967. It was nominated for the 1967 Pulitzer Prize.

“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.”

Pablo Picasso

Jeune Fille Endormie is a 1935 work by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso. It was sold at Christie’s auction house in London in 2011 for nearly £13.5 million after being donated to the University of Sydney by an anonymous American donor.

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“Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal. Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. ‘Nothing in excess’ professed the ancient Greeks. Why, if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn’t I be allowed the other half […]