Joyful Creation Quotes

I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.

The really creative person is not interested in dominating anybody. He is so utterly rejoicing in life - he wants to create, he wants to participate with God. Creativity is prayer. And whenever you create something, in those moments you are with God, you walk with God, you live in God. The more creative you are the more divine you are. To me, creativity is religion. Art is just the entrance to the temple of religion.

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.

If it doesn't make me dance, I don't want to put it out.

The true creator-self is a light at heart and free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.

It's been so inspiring to have complete creative control and to just have fun creating and collaborating with people I admire greatly.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

Of all the things God created, I am often most grateful He created laughter.

I think people are at their most creative when they're relaxed. I don't believe that tension is good for creativity. Everyone is relaxed and therefore can feel able to express their own individual creativity and lots of ideas come in. It's a joy like that.

I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is sifting through a rack of clothes, somehow that piece of clothing that you had so much fun designing speaks to her; she responds to it and buys it. I believe you can actually transfer that energy to material things as you're creating them.

The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.

I like happy sets. Happy sets are good, and I think people feel comfortable on them. When fear arrives in any context it's just boring and it closes people down. If people feel inadequate or if they feel bullied... It might work for some people but I think, as a rule, it just takes any joy out of the creative process.

My allegiance was always to the act. I wanted them to be happy. I wasn't owned by a magazine or a record label. And I was a very naughty boy to boot!

I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.

It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment.

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

I believe in finding somewhere you can express yourself, play without fear, play with everything you have. When you find that place, stay.