Rajneesh Quotes

I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.

[M]editation is not just being silent—that is only one part of it.... [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes out of your inner silences, or a painting, it has a flavor which is not of this world.

A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.

I find inspiration and rhythm in everything. Really I do. And I find inspiration in the really quiet moments.

An original is a creation motivated by desire.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

Objective art is just the opposite. The man has nothing to throw, he is utterly empty, absolutely clean. Out of this silence, out of this emptiness, arises love, compassion, and out of this silence a possibility for creativity. This silence, this love, this compassion, these are the qualities of meditation.

I think meditation helps greatly with creativity. If it's a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it's going to shine. It's going to resonate.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

In meditation, whatever happens is bound to be expressed in creativity.

I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

Make good art.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

I do what I love, thank God. I get to make music and get inspiration through Judaism. I can see why people might be surprised, because it's not been done before. It's certainly not typical. People are always trying to wrap head their around it. But it's probably simpler than everyone thinks.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.