Quotes About Creativity

Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!

I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.

Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.

If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, dear god you should listen to it played on a lute.

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.

God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.

The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.

When I create art, it's like holding hands with God.

Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.

I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?"

We are God's productions, His compositions.

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.

The best thing about being God would be making the heads.

God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it.

Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.

If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes.