Knowledge is borrowed. Imagination is original. It is the power of imagination that makes us different from our animal ancestors.

Making art requires a degree of intentionality. All works of art require a contemplative individual drawing from their bank of knowledge and immersion into the realms of memory and imagination in order to make an outward, communicative expression. Only human beings can draw upon the dialectical tension between memory and imagination to create artistic renderings.

Creative Intelligence: Like a wind filtering through the trees, it awakens one to an unknown awareness. Left alone, it grows with abundance, to analyze it suffocates its beauty. It is not a conscious effort, but an inspiration from afar. Without love it is impossible, with love it is immovable. It is not the sum of ones experiences, but a leap of consciousness. Without it there is no vision, with it there is wonder. To evolve we must harness it because our lives depend on it.

It was during the Renaissance that creativity was first seen, not as a matter of divine inspiration, but as a gift of a great learned man to imitate God’s ability to create. As Prometheus stole the fire of the Gods and brought it to the mankind, humanity needed to steal the secret of ‘creation’ from Gods and understand its essence.

People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to escape the expected and ordinary, to escape the regular expectations of a story, and truly step into a different world of literature.

The end product of imagination is creativity, and the end product of creativity is beauty.