Quotes about Creativity

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.

I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally.

It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen the reality of the suffering of the artist, composer or writer, but it points to something creative and redemptive in the human person, made in the image of God, which can bring forth a thing of beauty in the midst of surrounding ugliness, brutality and evil. Nowhere is this more true than in the book of Lamentations.

It is not easy to properly position and structure a book, not to mention to do the actual writing.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

It was said of him that he had once been for a short time in Bedlam; they had done him the honour to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet. This story was probably not true; we have all to submit to some such legend about us.

Make thought a whirlwind.

Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of humanity, have made puns.

Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts.

Supreme art is the region of Equals. There is no primacy among masterpieces.