Owen Barfield Quotes

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.

One of the interesting things an artist does is they keep rediscovering things, whether it's a jazz piece or a role you've done for 3,000 performances or a song you're singing for the 3,000th time. My job is to find that spark that keeps it fresh and alive.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.

I love seeing the new generation take something that we've done and reinvent it for a whole new time.

You must be very creative in our business. Creating in this business is making something new, but it is also touching on something old.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

There's always a way to say something that could seem really commonplace and make it special again.

What was old can be brought back new, and I bring that to the table. I bring mannerisms, facials, body language, positioning.

Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important we keep creating.

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

Behold, I make all things new.

I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time. As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new, and keep it exciting.

Seeing a young band, seeing that hunger and the raw spontaneity, is good for me. It keeps me young, so to speak.