Gary Zukav Quotes

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

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

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

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.

I just create, that's what I do.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.

Just knowing you're putting something out there that could take on a greater life - that's our sweet spot. That's what we try to do.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

Whatever it is that I thirst for in my current project tends to turn up in my following project.

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

My ultimate search has been for a muse.

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

You're best off when you're part of the centre of the creative universe.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.