Paracelsus Quotes

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

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

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Ideas come through us, not from us.

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

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

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

People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.

That's what I find so special: when you actually imagine something. But really, when it comes to you in a dream, and then you can bring it to life on the screen, it's very powerful.

True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don’t understand but something I’m able to harness and use. While electricity remains a mystery, I know I can plug into it and light up a cathedral or a synagogue or an operating room and use it to help save a life. Or I can use it to electrocute someone. Like electricity, creativity makes no judgment. I can use it productively or destructively. The important thing is to use it. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use it, the more you have.

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.