Quotes About Creativity

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Above all, art should be fun.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Photoshop is an art, and you can do a lot with it. Change the atmosphere through different lighting and make the pictures look more interesting.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

Express yourself through your art - whether it's your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

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.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.