J. Tillman Quotes

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

My ideas and creativity are the sources of inspiration for me.

With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.

Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

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.

The artist is inherently a romantic to some degree, and as such, I believe in a muse. But I don't try to analyze too much where it comes from.

A lot of my songs are inspired by a muse of some sort, whether she's real or not.

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

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.

Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

The only thing I know for sure about the creative process is it always comes back. Magically. When there are no creative juices and nothing is coming to me - if I wait - it comes!

Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.