Quotes about Creativity

I've never really had a studio. A studio makes you lazy and comfortable, and you repeat yourself.

In the beginning, I was a painter, but the moment I stood in front of the public and expressed my ideas using my body as the object and subject of the work, immediately it was clear that this is my best medium. I struggled with acceptance; my early career was hell. But it took me all these years to create a foundation so that performance would become accepted in the same way as photography and video. You have to believe that you're right, even if everybody believes you are wrong.

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

Too often the church complains about culture instead of creating it. The energy we spend on criticism is being stolen from creativity. It's sideways energy. We need fewer commentators and more innovators.

Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.

Don't just go out and do what Dick Eastman or your spiritual hero did. That's a spiritual cop-out. Copycat spirituality is short lived.

This verse is not just about capturing sinful thoughts and getting them out of our minds; it's also about capturing creative thoughts and keeping them in our minds. It means stewarding every word, thought, impression, and revelation inspired by the Spirit of God.

The day we stop dreaming is the day we start dying.

At some point, most of us stop living out of imagination and start living out of memory. Instead of creating the future, we start repeating the past. Instead of living by faith, we live by logic. Instead of going after our dreams, we stop circling Jericho. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?