Quotes About Creativity

To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.

Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.

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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else.

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.

The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.

every good artist paints what he is

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.

Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

Art is a picture of the spirit.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

This place is alive, " Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting.