Quotes about Creativity

What motivates me is true talent, it's golden when talent acknowledge talent.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.

God has given us these talents and we want to pass on our best.

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

think one of the worst enemies of creativity is self-doubt.

People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.

It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line You know, we really should work together sometime...

When the gospel is understood primarily in terms of entrance rather than joyous participation, it can actually serve to cut people off from the explosive, liberating experience of the God who is an endless giving circle of joy and creativity.

It is possible for music to be labeled Christian and be terrible music. It could lack creativity and inspiration. The lyrics could be recycled cliches. That Christian band could actually be giving Jesus a bad name because they aren't a great band. It is possible for a movie to be a Christian movie and to be a terrible movie. It may actually desecrate the art form in its quality and storytelling and craft.

How we respond to what happens to us - especially the painful, excruciating things that we never wanted and we have no control over - is a creative act.

You start with your 1 and then you suspend judgment on what you're doing, because you don't know what you have when you start. When you are constantly judging what you're doing, you aren't here. You aren't present. You are standing outside of your life, looking in, observing. The time for judgement will come at some point, but in the moment, you have only the 1. And then the 2. And then the 3...