Quotes About Creativity

I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Imagination is the other end of Reality.

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

Happiness is a side effect of doing something that has nothing to do with it.

Imagining something is better than remembering something.

...you don't need to be technically great, because if you have a strong philosophy people will be moved by your pictures regardless.

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything.

Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.

As Hamlet tells his friend, ''There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'' Well then, we must try harder to dream!

My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

Analysis kills spontaneity.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.