Quotes About Creativity

Artists by definition innocent don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

I've been 40 years discovering that the Queen of all colours is black.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

Rembrandt painted about 700 pictures - of these 3 000 are in existence.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

The scholar seeks the artist finds.

The song of the brush.

We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.

Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

Conception my boy fundamental brainwork is what makes the difference in all art.

Art does not reproduce the visible rather it makes it visible.

The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.

History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world I an artist I will answer you: T am here to live out loud.'

In any evolutionary process even in the arts the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it unsure of itself waiting to pounce.

What's an artist but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.

The artist like the idiot or clown sits on the edge of the world and a push may send him over it.

Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.

It's not what you see that is art art is the gap.