Quotes About Creativity

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature...I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.