Quotes About Creativity

Three days later he burst out in a completely new direction: seven drawings transport the "Déjeuners" to the Golden Age, and they are a joy to see, for Picasso was the draughtsman of the world, and the first is as lovely as anything in his long career.

often an unfinished picture is all the more interesting for the bare canvas.

But there were also men of far greater value who were drawn to Cubism, men whose language was paint or sculpture: among them Léger, Picabia, Delaunay, La Fresnaye, Le Fauconnier, Dufy for a while and Friesz, Lhote, Kisling, Herbin of the Bateau-Lavoir, Survage, Marcoussis, Diego Rivera, Mondrian, Archipenko, Brancusi, Lipchitz, and perhaps the most important of them all, the three brothers Jacques Villon, Duchamp-Villon, and Marcel Duchamp.

It has been said that in the "Jeune fille à la mandoline" Picasso was getting the best of several worlds, and certainly he makes use both of immediate and of remote symbols in what even the most sullen and dogged opponents of Cubism confess to be a

These prints carry on naturally, perhaps inevitably, to Picasso's most important work of 1935, the "Minotauromachie.

It may be that a man has only a given power of decision, and if he uses it all up, making vital choices every day in his studio, he has none left for everyday life.

Braque was right in saying, "The only thing that matters about a painting is what cannot be explained." Assertions that the picture is moving accomplish nothing, and the only hope of conveying some ghost of the feeling lies in description.

Horta de Sant Joan

Van Dongen was still there, with his Dutch wife and their little daughter, for whom Picasso made a sinister doll out of a black stocking; but van Dongen's days of extreme poverty, his diet of spinach alone, were almost at an end, for he had painted a fine erotic nude of Fernande (though its origin was never acknowledged)

Patrick Skene Catling

Patrick Skene Catling

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

having too many ideas is not always a good thing.

Don't be afraid of silly ideas.

for a creative person starting out on a career, try not thinking about film or media or whatever. think about money.

High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.' - John Cleese

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

a man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing.

In many organizations not a decision can be made without calling a meeting. Fear of making a mistake trumps the willingness to take risks. And without some risk-taking there is little chance of creating an exciting future. So rather than risking a decision, leaders and managers have meetings.

Making things . . . And making things work . . . That's where satisfaction is in this life.

L'ordre est le plaisir de la raison; mais le désordre est le délice de l'imagination

Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.