Quotes About Creativity

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

I don't like hype cluttering art.

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

There is no art without Eros.

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.