John Tavener Quotes

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.

My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature of his creative gifts, cannot divorce the two. To create is to love. To love is to create.

Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.

The making of art is no different than prayer.

Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?

Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying there at the window when I look out on the green and at the sky. I study with the birds, flowers, God and myself.

I’ve never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view... If you’re involved with imagination and the creative process, it’s not such a difficult thing to believe in a god. But I’m not involved in any religions.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.