Quotes About Expression

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

A worshiper's gift makes a statement about the worshiper and his God.

The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.

When I listen to gospel singers pouring their heart out to God, it's the act of pouring their hearts out that interests me.

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

God finds himself by creating.

God is my spiritual guide. Half the music I come up with I really don't know where it comes from.

God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating.

Hidden behind man is God. Just give him a little way, a little passage, to come through you. That is creativity. Allowing God to happen is creativity. Creativity is a religious state.

God is not a person but creativity, not a creator but creativity.

To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God.

All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to meet him will be to become a creator in some measure.

What Sri Chinmoy does is God-given! He has a tremendous, a fantastic creative urge.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

Creative art is the power to be for a moment a flash of communication between God and man.

Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness.

One of the lambs fixed its attention on Jared. "Baa," it flirted. "Boo," said Jared. "Oh my God, Jared. Don't tough-talk the lambs." "It was giving me a funny look.

God needs to get rescued from religious music.

Painting is saying "Ta" to God.