Zinker Quotes & Sayings

All creative activity begins with movement. — Joseph C Zinker

Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world. — Joseph C Zinker

Creativity is a celebration of life ... I am here! I love life! I love me! I can be anything! I can do anything! — Joseph C Zinker

Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible. — Joseph C Zinker

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is in [the] process of making something ... that the creator contacts a concrete reality outside his subjective life and moves into the realm of the transcendent. — Joseph C Zinker

Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does. — Haley Joel Osment

The key to opening the secret of humanity is to love and understand the beauty of it. — Debasish Mridha

During those rare moments of creativeness, when a person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence. What could be a greater reward? — Joseph C Zinker

In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity. — Joseph C Zinker

When the person with a chokehold on your soul says, "Jump," you pack your parachute and hope for a soft landing. — Jamie Wyman

Excellent anthology ... a celebration of our goodness and our potential for growth. The sense of celebration is stretched by the beautiful photographs ... — Joseph C Zinker

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person. — Joseph C Zinker

We were all trapped in stories, she said, just as he used to say, his wavy hair, his naughty smile, his beautiful mind, each of us the prisoner of our own solipsistic narrative, each family the captive of the family story, each community locked within its own tale of itself, each people the victims of their own versions of history, and there were parts of the world where the narratives collided and went to war, where there were two or more incompatible stories fighting for space on, to speak, the same page. — Salman Rushdie

The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential. — Joseph C Zinker