Jamie Parker Quotes

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

Creativity is an energy. It's a precious energy, and it's something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they're a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can't be taken for granted.

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

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

A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

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

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

I think either you're creative or you're not. In general, I don't think you need to be in pain to actually be creative unless you're writing love songs. Then you might need to have some ups and downs within your emotions to start to capture that.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

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

Make good art.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.