Quotes about Creativity

If you think beauty insipid, you haven't experienced it. Nor is it always devoid of suffering. That's something religious artists have always understood, Michelangelo, Chagall, and Van Gogh, Beethoven, C.S. Lewis, and all the writer's for whom beauty is a gift and a calling.

Oh, what I know about myself isn't really worth telling, said Anne eagerly. If you'll only let me tell you what I imagine about myself you'll think it ever so much more interesting.

Oh, I wonder if I shall ever be able to do anything worth while in the way of writing.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

But without wisdom, imagination is like a cruel taskmaster.

I have a new respect for filmmakers, that's for sure, 'cause it's not easy. If I'm allowed to, I'll be directing for the rest of my life. I love the process.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.