"The primary imagination I hold to be the Living Power"
Coleridge
""I
myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me."
Blake
"The
position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel."
Piet Mondrian
"The
music of this opera was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in putting
it on paper and communicating it to the public."
Giacommo Puccini
"Straightaway
the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God."
Johannes Brahms
"The
purpose of art is not rarified, intellectual distillate - it islife, intensified,
brilliant life."
Alain Arias-Misson
"Inspiration is a form of
superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure
it is the antithesis of self-consciousness."
Aaron Copland
"Like
an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it."
Robbie
Gass
"The most potent muse of all is our inner child."
Stephen
Nachmanovitch
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain
an artist once he grows up."
Pablo Picasso
"To live a creative
life we must lost our fear of being wrong."
Joseph Chilton Pearce
"When
you are feeling depreciated, angry or drained, it is a sign that other people are
not open to your energy."
Sanaya Roman
"Go confidently in
the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your
life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."
Henry David Thoreau
"Every
time we say Let there be! in any form, something happens."
Stella Terrill
Mann
"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what
the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
Robert
Louis Stevenson
"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance,
you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness."
Shakti
Gawain
"What I am saying is that we need to be willing to let our
intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly."
Shakti
Gawain
"Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and
perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers."
Brenda Ueland
"When
man takes one step towards god, God takes more steps toward that man than there are
sands in the worlds of time."
The Work of the Chariot
"One
does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very
long time."
Andre Gide
"Your creativity is waiting for you
like a dancing partner."
Barbara Sher
"We need to remember
that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they
are needed."
Maya Angelou
"My work is giving space to the
creative spirit - learning to get out of its way and be in its service at the same
time. We each have responsibility to express ourselves. And in this expression is
the key to our healing."
Gabrielle Roth
"What you love is
a sign from your higher self of what you are to do."
Sanaya Roman
"Making
art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls."
Julia Cameron
"Be
yourself. The world worships the original."
Jean Cocteau
"I
went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something
you can be judged."
Erica Jong
"Being with real people who
warm us, who endorse and exhault our creativity, is essential to the flow of the
creative life. Otherwise we freeze. When women are out in the cold, they tend to
live on fantasies."
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
"The degree to
which you support and acknowledge yourself will be the degree to which you receive
support."
Sanaya Roman
"Take control of your destiny. Believe
in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative places, things
and habits. Don't give up and don't give in."
Wanda Carter
"Your
playing small serves no one."
Marianne Williamson
"When you
get sick and tired of being tired and sick, you'll change"
Old saying
"I
am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't
be done."
Henry Ford