Quotes About Creativity

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God

Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

Yeah, I think it's like any God-given gift. You writers have the gift of perception. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. And it's the same thing with you [Lorraine], it's God-given.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

The god of music dwelleth out of doors.

I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.

The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.

Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced it. I make films for young people. That's what I will continue to do.

Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.