“What really counts is to strip the soul naked. Painting or poetry is made as we make love, a total embrace, prudence thrown to the wind, nothing held back.” – Jean Miro

“Dare to be naive” – R. Buckminster Fuller

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)” – Walt Whitman

“The experience of doing anything well — from the minor scale to the Hammerklavier Sonata — is an irreplaceable event of the spirit.” – Robert Crudin

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it.” – Ernest Hemingway

“My feeling that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self-actualizing, fully human person seems to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing.” – Abraham Maslow

“There ain’t no rules here! We’re trying to accomplish something!” – Attributed to Thomas Edison upon being asked by a new worker at Menlo Park where the lab rules were posted.

“Imagination precedes implementation” – Industrial Areas Foundation training principle

“It takes a village to survive” – Isabel Allende

Here are some quotes relating to the creative process I’ve found particularly inspiring. If you’ve got one, please send it to:tom@tresser.com.

Thank you!