Quotes About Creativity

He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.–--Manet to Monet, on Renoir---

It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That's what are can do.

I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.

Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it.

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.

Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and "art" itself has become satire.

While art should never become exclusionary and elitist, any culture which fails to support its artists is only contributing to its own impoverishment. (Beyond Religion, p. 122)

Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.

The survival of my own ideas may not be as important as a condition I might create for others' ideas to be realized.

The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling me to tap into the unconscious.

Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.

The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery.

Art is long, life is short.