Virginia Woolf Quotes

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.

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.

The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.

The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .

If you have a thought of hate, imagine a source that is responsible for creating everything in the Universe that's operating on hate. It wouldn't create things that it hated.

Art is a sense of magic.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

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.

One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Make good art.

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they're all a continuum - the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression.