Whenever you go to create, look inside you, not outside-- not what others say and make-- follow what lights up your mind.
In the notebook
Emerson connection
“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoguhts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-reliance”