Quotes About Creativity

Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll go run a pumpkin patch.

Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.

I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

It's so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

The worst thing that can happen to you as an artist is for you to lose faith in yourself.

Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

Making art is an act of faith.

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.