Mary Szybist Quotes

It's a waste to not say anything with art.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

There is nothing that art cannot express.

We are all Michaelangelos.

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.

Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.

There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.

Some sort of creativity is within everybody; I think that's just a part of the human spirit. I think there's no human being on earth who is not creative in some way, because I think it's just a part of our genetic makeup.

Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed in a text and the text can't do that work by itself and you as a poet can only do your best.

The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.

Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

I don't really wanna think about themes. I wanna just think about the experience of the movie. I feel like, as soon as I reduce it to a theme, once I write that sentence, it won't be that great. I feel like there's more potential for it to mean something interesting if I'm not forcing it to mean something I've already decided.

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty.

I can be most colorful and inventive when I am angry.

I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.