Quotes About Creativity

If the color yellow runs out with what will we make bread?

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

Good artists copy; great artists steal.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.