David Means Quotes

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

I learned about being positive from my parents. They're the most positive people I've ever known.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

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

As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they're all a continuum - the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression.

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

I've by and large been a positive person ever since I can remember.

If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.

It is probably like an artist. They see in their head what they want to draw, and they draw it. It is like I have a feeling inside me that I want to create on a horse, and that is what I do.

I have such deep appreciation for artists who have the ability to create something from within, something completely unique and original to each piece of work.

I'm a motivational speaker, so I'm going to look at something in as much of a positive way as possible.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't really focus on more negativity. I'm a positive person, and I look at things in a positive way.

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

At moments we are all artists.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

A good artist has less time than ideas.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.