Quotes About Creativity

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

What Sri Chinmoy does is God-given! He has a tremendous, a fantastic creative urge.

All of my writing is God-given.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."

But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.

Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness.

The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.

As image-bearers of God, human beings likewise create in ways that reflect our identity.

I am not God. But I can only do my role here on this planet. The role I feel I was given since I was a kid was to be making art and I only wanted to give and I never let money be my God.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

God gave me the talent and I endeavor to give it back to Him with each new idea.

Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.

Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

When it comes to comedy, they always say, "Jackée, whatever comes to your mind." But heaven forbid I can't think of something. It's never happened yet, thank God. I may knock on wood.