Quotes About Creativity

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

I am always watching for fear of getting feeble and passé in my work. I don't want to trickle out. I want to pour till the pail is empty, the last bit going out in a gush, not in drops.

My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

You should work your hardest to inspire your inspirations

We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work which was that idea of an art work, and its formal components weren't important.

Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.