“Creative people love solitude. It is essential, during a reflection or a creative moment, to have total silence around you, to confide the ideas of mind to your body.”

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.”

Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”

Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress

“Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.”

Doreen Virtue (1958) American writer

“I love the play between the conscious and unconscious minds in the creative moment, and for me chess and the martial arts are both about developing a rich working relationship with your intuition.”

Josh Waitzkin (1976) Chess player

“The creative mind plays with the object it loves.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.”

Louise Penny (1958) Canadian woman writer

“You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.”

Yanni (1954) Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer

“One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

“File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.”

Antony Johnston (1972) writer, mainly of comics, known for his post-apocalyptic series Wasteland and adapting Alan Moore's work in othe…