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Quotes About Creativity

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.
~ Franz Schubert
Every night I pray to God: 'Please, no more wack MC's.'
~ J-Ro
A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.
~ Leo Frankowski
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
~ Andre Gide
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
~ Igor Stravinsky
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.
~ Alvar Aalto
Creation is a process that is still happening and we're in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.
~ Richard Rohr
When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!
~ Agnes Varda
Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.
~ Christopher Plummer
I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.
~ Lenny Kravitz
Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.
~ John Edensor Littlewood
I do not believe in God, yet I believe in Picasso.
~ Diego Rivera
For me, the Beatles are proof of the existence of God.
~ Rick Rubin
God is infinitely creative, and everyone's different, and everyone has a different path, a different lesson, a different song, a different face, a different voice.
~ India.Arie
Straightaway the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God.
~ Johannes Brahms
My God is rock'n'roll.
~ Lou Reed
Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."
~ Agnes Varda
Artists live with God – but give their little finger to Satan. I sleep with the angels and dream of the devil.
~ Heitor Villa-Lobos
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.
~ Peter Bichsel
Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.
~ Bob Ross
God makes stars. I just produce them.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
~ Camille Pissarro
By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition
~ Bedrich Smetana
I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.
~ Bob Fosse