Quotes About Creativity

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

Si je crois en Dieu? Oui, quand je travaille. Quand je suis soumis et modeste, je me sens tellement aidé par quelqu'un qui me fait faire des choses qui me surpassent.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.

El artista comienza con una visión, una operación creativa que requiere un esfuerzo. La creatividad requiere coraje.

An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc." -Henri Matisse, artist (31 Dec 1869-1954)

The mere ambition to write a poem is enough to kill it.

I begin to write, almost without realizing it, without thinking, busy transmitting these words I don't recognize, although they are highly significant: "Too much! Too much! You're giving me too much!

Art is a barren route, of which glory is the oasis.

Boheemlus on kunstniku elus proovilepaneku aeg; see juhatab teda kas akadeemikuellu, haiglasse või surnukuuri.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

The best antidote to writer's block is...to write.

What is the "it" in "write it down"? When you don't have an answer to that question, when you don't know what your goals are, you can use your writing to point you in the right direction. If you don't know what you want, start writing. Writing makes its own meaning

Writing separates the dream from the fear; writing about your anxiety makes it an entity existing outside of your goal.

give yourself permission to dream, to be totally unrealistic. (Richard Bolles says, "One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh, come now, be realistic.' ")

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.