Jerry Garcia Quotes

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Boredom is your imagination calling to you.

The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance to imagination. Human beings' greatest form of communication, they walk in tandem with science and play, and best describe what it is to be human.

The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

An empty canvas is full.

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

There's no shortage of material in life.

The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

I have too many ideas for a lifetime.