J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.

I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use their imagination to deal with their experience, you know, I think that's going to be good for not only for those authors but also for people who are interested in trying to understand it.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

Every human being is an artist

Some sort of creativity is within everybody; I think that's just a part of the human spirit. I think there's no human being on earth who is not creative in some way, because I think it's just a part of our genetic makeup.

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

I really want to be creative. I want to innovate. I want to be innovative, and I want to do things that are different.

Art is what defines us, what makes us human.

Creative instinct is personal.

The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

Since I write the lyrics, I don't want to be pigeonholed into a person who's out there preaching these songs. If you read the lyrics, there isn't a story being set up for you. You have to use your imagination to get the best out of the songs - if you choose to do that.

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

We are creators, just like the one who created us. And we are always expressing our creativity, with or without awareness.

In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.

The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.