"I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness."
--Brenda Ueland

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."
--Charles Mingus

"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."
--Warren Bennis