Quotes About Creativity

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

True art is reverent imitation of God.

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

God is the poetic genius in each of us.

You can always make a good film but for it to be successful, you need God's blessing.

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

God bless pop music and God bless MTV.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course.

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.

The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

God is my spiritual guide. Half the music I come up with I really don't know where it comes from.

Hidden behind man is God. Just give him a little way, a little passage, to come through you. That is creativity. Allowing God to happen is creativity. Creativity is a religious state.

Creativity means you have to disappear, you have to allow God to be.

God is creativity, not a Creator.

God is not repetitive; His creativity is infinite.

God is not a person but creativity, not a creator but creativity.