Quotes About Creativity

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

The most important thing in art is taste.

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be violent and that's much more dangerous in a way.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects perceived was all-important.

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

I just do art because I'm ugly and there's nothing else for me to do.