Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

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

In a lot of ways, the cool thing about modeling is that other people and artists I look up to are able to project their artistic visions onto me, and it was really exciting to be a muse in that way and carry out a vision.

I'm inspired by visual stimulation.

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

The student learns rules but all the rules in the world never make a picture.

Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it!

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than any words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.

Creativity comes from constraint.

I try to make everything creative because it's stimulating. There is this great Stanley Kubrick quote somewhere about how life is sort of bad and how creating is important because it lets a little light in.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.