Brian Jacques Quotes

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.

Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.

And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.

Don't be afraid to use all the colors in the crayon box.

In the end it all comes down to enthusiasm. Your creativity is basically your expression of God-force.

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.

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

For me, the Beatles are proof of the existence of God.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

Each kid is unique in what captures their attention and their passion.

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

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.