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Quotes About Creativity

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.
~ Maynard James Keenan
To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.
~ J. E. H. MacDonald
Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.
~ Richard Louv
Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.
~ Asher Brown Durand
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.
~ Henry Moore
In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.
~ Van Day Truex
Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
~ John Bunyan
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
~ Ansel Adams
I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.
~ Rei Kawakubo
For man is by nature an artist.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
~ Paul Cezanne
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
~ Alan Kay
In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.
~ Anton Chekhov
I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.
~ Auguste Rodin
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
~ Aristotle
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
~ Charles Baudelaire
It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
~ Philip Emeagwali
The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.
~ Don Roff
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.
~ Elsa Peretti
No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev