Rajneesh Quotes

To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

Improv plays such a huge role in finding great lines - you'll be surprised at what comes out of your mind inadvertently. A lot of times it's better than a script you've worked out ahead of time.

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

Even at your best, the creative moments are still kind of fleeting.

The funny thing about being creative is that, especially high school people, I kept noticing I'd always go to these certain materials. I'd always be picking up trash and picking up paper and using it.

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

Society may shun bohemia, may put it down, may consider it useless and ineffective, but it is where everything cooks and boils and is created.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

Everyone is super creative in the family.

My concept is not bigger than Weather Report. I am Weather Report. It comes through me; I do not create nothing. It comes from being a child and listening to the radio every day of my life.

The way creative people live is different from people who don't do anything creative.

People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.

I stay away from the arts... writing songs, being creative - those are downloads from God. You can't do data analytics on art.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

What matters is what happens in the soul of an artist when you're playing.