Quotes About Creativity

Because: if our secrets define us, as opposed to the face we show the world: then the painting was the secret that raised me above the surface of life and enabled me to know who I am. And it's there: in my notebooks, every page, even though it's not.

Well, is true. I did know. Because if possible to paint fakes that look like that? Las Vegas would be the most beautiful city in the history of earth!

Bad artists copy, good artists steal.

We have art in order not to die from the truth. — NIETZSCHE

Sometimes I wondered exactly what it might take to break Andy out of his math-nerd turret: a tidal wave? Decepticon invasion? Godzilla tromping down Fifth Avenue? He was a planet without an atmosphere.

really great painting is fluid enough to work its way into the mind and heart through all kinds of different angles, in ways that are unique and very particular.

And if what they say is true--if every great painting is really a self-portrait--what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?

he said well if you can't plan it out ahead of time, you'll just have to work it out as you go along

I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better way to go insane.")

Do you really think what we do is work? - What else should I call it? I should call it the most glorious kind of play.

You know what Picasso says. 'Bad artists copy, good artists steal.

Picasso says. 'Bad artists copy, good artists steal.

One's thought patterns become different, he said, when forced into the confines of a rigid and unfamiliar tongue. Certain common ideas become inexpressible; other, previously undreamt-of ones spring to life, finding miraculous new articulation.

loose tendons; dance world's loss; performance art's gain

fact it seemed we had been doing things, such as stringing necklaces of rainbow-colored candy while the radio played Belle and Sebastian

To me, the hallmark of the modern mind is that it loves to wander from its subject.

There's only a double abyss: between painter and imprisoned bird; between the record he left of the bird and our experience of it, centuries later.

the line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn't matter if it's been through the Xerox machine a hundred times.

author of more than

Why didn't vandals ever quote Shakespeare? I'd love to see graffiti in iambic pentameter.

I can't do it, if I finish that, I'll have to attach a seat belt to the toilet. Maybe an airbag too.

J.C. Greenburg

He adored Goya. The madness leapt off the walls.

Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?" "Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see.