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Quotes About Creativity

I love Johnny (Depp). A lot of the stuff I've done for him stands out for me just because of the relationship and who he is.
~ Colleen Atwood
When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.
~ Adrian Tomine
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
~ Marcel Proust
Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.
~ Anais Nin
If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.
~ Xenophanes
We could plan a murder Or start a religion.
~ Jim Morrison
Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.
~ Karen Armstrong
All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".
~ Ezra Pound
I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.
~ Nick Cave
For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.
~ Rosanne Cash
With the power of soul, anything is possible.
~ Jimi Hendrix
I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.
~ Robert Pattinson
I'm obsessed with low end, its kind of my religion. In a way it has given me a chance to explore more than I have in any other project.
~ Max Richter
My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
~ Lou Reed
One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.
~ Nick Hornby
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.
~ James Freeman Clarke
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wanted to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs.
~ Bill Maher
We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.
~ Victor Cousin
What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
~ C.S. Lewis
But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My religion lies in my composition.
~ John Philip Sousa