We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.
I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.
One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.
Creativity means you have to disappear, you have to allow God to be.
I always said God was against art and I still believe it.
Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.
Creativity itself is divine. Creativity itself is godliness.
In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child's soul with poetry every day.
An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.
We are the products of a highly intelligent and creative supreme being.
No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.
When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.
Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.
You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don’t know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it – whatsoever it is
Such a divine profession is art! When everything else looks so stale and disgustingly vacuous, so enthralls even the littlest real effort of art our innermost and carries us from town, from country, from earth, as that it must be truely a blessing of the Gods.
God has created the world in play, as it were.
God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.
The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.
It is imperative to bear in mind that human creativity is not a claim or a right on the part of man, but God's claim on and call to man. God awaits man's creative act, which is the response to the creative act of God.
Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.
The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.
The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.
