Lauren Groff Quotes

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing that they all have in common is that they are all a sort of magic. Sometimes the magic flows from one’s fingers, other times it is transferred to the person who experiences the result. Magic has always worked in mysterious ways.

To have the ability to withdraw into oneself and forget everything around one when one is creating - What, I think is the only requirement for being able to bring forth something beautiful. The whole thing is - a mystery.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

I can concentrate on my art.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

Art and life are inseparable.