Quotes About Creativity

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body

Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

I don't take drugs: I am drugs.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.

Your hands are tied in action, but your hands are not tied in imagination and everything springs forth from the imagination. Everything.

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution.

The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game.

I do have a clear vision, and I do see things that are existing in my quote-unquote spirit, but that doesn't necessary make me a very spiritual person.

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.

Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.

Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.

Writing is a spiritual path. It helps you listen to your heart, trust your inner guidance, and live your life full-out.

There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.

You will find meaning in life only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed. It is a song to be sung.It is a dance to be danced.