Joseph C Zinker Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

Joseph C Zinker

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. All creative activity begins with movement.

Joseph C Zinker

#8. Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible.

Joseph C Zinker

#9. 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

#10. 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