Quotes About Creativity

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.

Imagination tends to be truly useful if accompanied by the power of mental control - if the worlds in one's head can be purposefully manipulated and distinguished from the real one outside it.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be 'Sing your prayers.'

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe.

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.

I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesnt hurt, either.

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don't just brainstorm; praystorm.

Practice unfettered living from the heart, abandoning all self-imposed limitations to emerge a new, creativity unleashed, giving of yourself like never before.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.

Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.

The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.

I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that's always interested me.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression