Charles Baudelaire Quotes

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

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

To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Art is spiritual.

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

I'm a thinker and feeler and dreamer and explorer.