Quotes About Creativity

The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.

A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.

The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.

Happiness should be something which results from the creative, genuine, intense relatedness - awareness, responsiveness, to everything in life - to man, to nature.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.