John Darnielle Quotes

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

Just knowing you're putting something out there that could take on a greater life - that's our sweet spot. That's what we try to do.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

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.

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.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

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

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

I believe in creative work.

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

Every artiste has a process.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

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

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

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

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

Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.