Marianne Moore Quotes

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door.

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.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Nebraska people have the heart and power to create real beauty and art if they will only wake up and do it.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

Belief releases creative powers.

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God meant it to be in the mental economy is not merely noble, but supereminent. It is the distinguishing element in all refinement. It is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.

If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

Unless a man learns how to create, he never becomes a part of existence, which is constantly creative. By being creative one becomes divine; creativity is the only prayer.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

When you want to do a big thing, get the mental pattern, make it perfect, know just what it means, enlarge your thought, keep it to yourself, pass it over to the creative power behind all things, wait and listen, and when the impression comes, follow it with assurance. Don't talk to anyone about it. Never listen to negative talk or pay attention to it and you will succeed where all others fail.

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity