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Quotes About Creativity

I think god gave us talent because he screwed up our hair
~ Dolly Parton
I was created by the all powerful God to fill the universe with my masterpieces.
~ El Greco
Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.
~ Gerhard Richter
You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in.
~ Jay-Z
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.
~ Albert Pinkham Ryder
If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have
~ Amber Tamblyn
I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in.
~ Anne Sexton
The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.
~ Peter Altenberg
God, the king of artists, was clumsy.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?
~ Ray Bradbury
I just try to show everything I represent and I represent God so I want to put that in my music.
~ Stan Walker
Most talented with a God given talent for weaving words of heartfelt wonder.
~ Grange Lady Haig Rutan
I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.
~ Hiroshi Sugimoto
God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.
~ John Crowe Ransom
I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.
~ Jonathan Winters
As a writer, its important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.
~ Amish Tripathi
I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.
~ Carrie Fisher
Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.
~ Terry McMillan
There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.
~ Eduardo Galeano
Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.
~ Gary D. Schmidt
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
~ Gustave Flaubert