Quotes About Creativity

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can't have that kind of thing, cut it out!"

Anybody who writes knows the horrible, wonderful, beautiful foulness that comes every week. A lot of moaning, screaming agony - "Oh my god, the deadline's coming."

There's a lot of hate mail from readers. There's hate mail, threats, stalkers... I think that I'm bulletproof every week when I've turned something in. I think, I'm a god.

I don't isolate too much or make the project my god. This helps a lot with negative ideation.

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

At the start of each new day, remind yourself: I am talented. I am creative. I am greatly favored by God. I am equipped. I am well able. I will see my dreams come to pass.

A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.

I think what Robert Redford established is amazing; thank god for Robert Redford. He's set an amazing example with Sundance and I hope to follow that in my own way.

Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

The most supreme beauty is that of the feminine; the source of all creativity. Even in my greatest despair, that realization alone restores my faith in God.

When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.

What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

Boredom is why God invented books.

Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.

They were worried we wouldn't get any radio play at all[ for "A Deal with God" ]. That's why it was changed [to "Running Up That Hill"].

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.