Quotes About Creativity

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

Not everyone is an artist but everyone is a fucking critic.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.

Tout bon livre est un attentat. [in Essai sur moi-même]

One has to look out for engineers—they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which would otherwise have remained unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they and only they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

A book is the product of a different self from the self we manifest in our habits, in our social life, in our vices.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Everything great that we know has come from neurotics never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion