Quotes About Creativity

Nothing seems to me more tragic than the pressures we put on artists to do what we think we'll like, and our refusal to prize what is most ornery and special about them.

Making a whole is very important. Most people paint things and forget the whole.

Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration!

Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person....

Learn about art, Captain. When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour

And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

A blank canvas is a playground for the imagination.

Reality is not enough for us, that's why we have invented art to create different realities!

Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.

Dance is your words expressed with movement.

Dance is the language of artistic kinesis.

Some of the greatest masterpieces of art are created against the odds of reality.from the book: stuff i think about

I love the smell of pastels...that breaths life into my soul.

When art calls, you have to follow it. It doesn't happen often, so take the opportunity when it strikes. In all reality, what I do is art. I do create fabulous pieces of decorative baked goods.

Not having enough talent seemed almost worse than not having any, because having a little meant having just enough to know what you lacked

My father said that artists see the world differently than normal people. I see a tree where you mights see a collection of lines, shapes, and shadows.

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.

In my ArtI have butone fear:that we willfail to befearless.

Who knows when a trenchant line becomes a human face?

Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak— that I think about it all day long— that I like experimenting— studying— reflecting.

Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind!