George Carlin Quotes

Grass [marijuana] probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Kids would come up to me after concerts and give me drawings they've made of violins or, you know, landscapes with a violin floating in it or some sketch of a concert or a portrait of me.

Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

A lot of my songs are inspired by a muse of some sort, whether she's real or not.

Acting is all about creative ideas and sharing, so the more places those ideas come from, the better.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting.

I want to entertain and inspire.

For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

Some people like to paint and sing. We like to create and build.

Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend.

I've watched my mom take a plain piece of paper and create something beautiful out of it, and I think that kind of manifested for me in taking a character from the page and bringing that to life.

Seeing how kids lit up when they were creating things made me think of what would be the ultimate platform for our imagination.

I'm very creative, intuitive - I like to entertain.

I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper'. The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.