Russell Brand Quotes

I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.

Creativity is a spiritual issue.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

I think God is the most unexplored territory in rock and roll music.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

I stay away from the arts... writing songs, being creative - those are downloads from God. You can't do data analytics on art.

I have such deep appreciation for artists who have the ability to create something from within, something completely unique and original to each piece of work.

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest known link between the material life we have and the spiritual life that we can only guess at. Every great poet, painter, or musician - every inventor or man of science, every fine actor or orator, comes to us as the exponent of something diviner than we know. We cannot understand it, but we feel it, and acknowledge it.

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.

Creativity is always from the beyond.

So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.

The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God to walk in the room. And when I write something that I know is right, I get on my knees and say 'thank you.'

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God.