Quotes About Creativity

When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

In the end it all comes down to enthusiasm. Your creativity is basically your expression of God-force.

The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

When you understand who and what you are, your radiance projects into the universal radiance and everything around you becomes creative and full of opportunity.

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.

I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it.

I thought of that while riding my bicycle.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.

All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.

When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.

I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.

I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying to find, the sacred, the spiritual in it.

Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.

If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.