Quotes About Creativity

We are not to tell nature what she's gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view - the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

When we are conscious of our personal uniqueness and our universal nature we express ourselves creatively. In this way we fulfill our dreams and our life purpose.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade.

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.

The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.