“The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.” LifeSimpleCreativeRichEnvironmentTroubleLife And LivingGardenEnvironmentalSimplicityJoyfulSimple LifeMinimalismSimple LivingLife LivingLiving A Simple LifeLife Is Simple Author:Doris Janzen Longacre
“While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.” TryingLooksPartyGoneCreativeHugePrideModelsAreasGardenDecidedScalesBe CreativeSaladMiniaturesOverboardBabylon Author:Gregory Maguire
“I think my love for books sprang from my need to escape the world I was born into, to slide into another where words were straightforward and honest, where there was clearly delineated good and evil, where I found girls who were strong and smart and creative and foolish enough to fight dragons, to run away from home to live in museums, to become child spies, to make new friends and build secret gardens.” ThinkingWorldNeedsChildrenBookEnoughHomeRunningGirlFightingEvilFoundStrongBornSecretCreativeHonestSmartGardenFoolishGood And EvilDragonsMuseumsRunning AwaySpySlidesStraightforwardNew FriendsAway From HomeSecret Garden Author:Jesmyn Ward
“The creative process is just a process and you can't really separate it from life. Growing your hair is a creative process. Your body is creating hair. Being alive is a creative process. Whether it's growing something in the garden or growing a song, the material accumulates. It's the process of being alive; it's the passage of time. Things change.” BodySongProcessCreativeAliveGrowingMaterialsHairCreatingGardenYour BodyPassagesCreative ProcessThings ChangePassage Of Time Author:Antony Hegarty
“I love that I live a creative life. It is in the work that I do - acting, writing, and directing. It's also in the mindfulness of every part of my life, from a meal that I prepare for family and friends to putting my imagination to work in a garden.” WritingImaginationActingCreativeMindfulnessGardenMealsFamily And FriendsMy ImaginationCreative Life Author:Regina Taylor
“I have thought about posterity all my life. There isn't as much adventure and creative unfolding as there is in planting a garden and watching it grow. It's like watching the film grow, because you don't know what the seed of an idea is going to actually result in.” FilmCreativeAdventureGardenPosterity Author:Barbara Hammer
“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” ArtArtistVisionCreativityCreativeDesignGardenLaborPaidPainterPositive ThoughtsTattooFine ArtsBeing An ArtistFamous ArtistCreative ArtistsArt And ArtistsArt And CreativityInspirational ArtistInspiration And CreativityArtists And CreativityInspirational ArtGreat VisionGraphic ArtistCreative VisionDesign And ArtInspiring ArtArt DesignInspiring ArtistArt InspirationPassion For Art Author:James Whistler
“A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.” MenShouldFirstsDoeSometimesActionStrongViewsPrinciplesCreativeTreeOughtBedIdealsGardenArguingBoatConceptionLunchRootedMinorsReverseRoofArrangementsFlexibleBalloonsUnchangeable Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.” MindNamesFearCreativityCreativeGardenWeedPositive ThoughtsRipMultiplyingPulling Weeds Book:Soul’s Perfection (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) Source: Soul’s Perfection (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)
“Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like (Bernard) Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they often starve themselves, socially, erotically, and, at last but not least, nutritionally, in order to let the grosser weeds die out, and make way for the growth of their inner garden.” MenWaySelfLastsOrderDiesGrowthCreativeGardenWeedBernard ShawErikson Author:Lewis Hyde
“The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.” WritingMindStillsIdeasSelfCommonCreativeHeardDrinkDrugIntellectualGardenClaimsPopsMythAlcoholVarietySubstanceOur TimeDemonDullServingDriversEndeavorUsualSensibilityBullshitAlcoholicsDrugs And AlcoholSelf ServingAbusersEntwinedDruggies Author:Stephen King
“In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.” WholeDeathGrowthCreativityCreativeDoorsMysteryDyingFlowerBirthHolyGardenCyclesFar AwayImpermanence Book:From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton