Erwin McManus Quotes

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.

Talent works, genius creates.

Imagination is the air of mind.

Imagination decides everything.

I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

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

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

I don't believe in writer's block.

I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.

I think you always win in storytelling when you let the best creative ideas guide you.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.