Quotes About Creativity

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day , on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.

I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides...

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men

In would rather die of passion than of boredom.

I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the painter who dares and who has broken the spell of 'you can't' once and for all.

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.