Quotes About Creativity

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.

Even in front of nature one must compose.

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.

All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.

Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.

Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.