Quotes About Creativity

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

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

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.

Wrestling is an art form. I don't worry about those who don't get it; I worry about satisfying those who do.

The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

When one is painting one does not think.

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Art is like ham-it nourishes people.

Where there is no heart there is no art.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.