Quotes About Creativity

The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know.

Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.

The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Art is stronger than Nature