Quotes about Creativity

I got really hooked on this riff in the middle of this song called 'Minor Miracles' by my friend Eric Johnson from Fruit Bats. I got the tracks for that from him, and that turned into 'Here in Spirit.'

I know that I'm with the best people I can be, and my arsenal of sounds and songs and tracks is as good as it could possibly be. Don't be in a band unless you feel that.

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today…. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

We will make love an art and we will love like artists.

God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.