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Artistic Quotes About
Creativity
Artists need to be nudged,
inspired, and motivated in order to produce the
goods. Artists come from all walks of life and vary
in knowledge, talent, experience, education, and
personality. ~ Debbie Jensen
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to
concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be
born everyday; to feel a sense of self. ~ Erich
Fromm
What moves men of genius or rather what inspires
their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession
with the idea that what has already been said is
still not enough.~ Eugene Delacroix, artist
My imagination takes its strength and guides its
direction from what I see and hear and learn and
feel and remember of my living world. ~ Eudora
Welty
Whatever feeling, whatever state you have at the
time of making the line will register in the stroke.
~ Robert Henri
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found
anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet
away. It is always on his doorstep. ~ Paul
Strand
All art requires courage. ~ Anne Tucker
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of
ideas. ~ Linus Pauling
To be an artist is to believe in life. ~ Henry
Moore
I dream my painting and then paint my dream.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
A man paints with his brains and not with his
hands. ~ Michelangelo
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. ~
John Cage
Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the
tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the
blossom from the twig. None of these forget the
present in looking backward or forward. They are
occupied fully with the fulfillment of their own
existence. ~ Robert Henri
Creativity requires the willingness and ability to
declassify and restructure information and
experience. ~ Philip Calo Paratore
The artist recognizes existing relationships and
arrests them. ~
Louise Nevelson
Art is the desire of a man to express himself,
to record the reactions of his personality to the
world he lives in. ~ Amy Lowell
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting
senses and emotions of the artist's world. ~ Hans
Hoffman
Art is the stored honey of the human soul,
gathered on wings of misery and travail. ~
Theodore Dreiser
A work becomes a work of art when one
re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own
spirituality. ~ Emil Nolde
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a
cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ~ Georges
Rouault
The progress of an artist is a continual
self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of
personality. ~ T.S. Eliot
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and
paints his own nature into his pictures. ~
Henri Matisse
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of
being wrong. ~ John Singer Sargent
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using
materials of one's chosen form. ~ Stephen
Nachmanovitch
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your
sources. ~ Albert Einstein
Creativity in science could be described as the act
of putting two and two together to make five. ~
Arthur Koestler
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the
making something out of it after it is found. ~
James Russell Lowell
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly
unconnected. ~ William Plomer
Creativity can be described as letting go of
certainties. ~ Gail Sheehy
A creative man is motivated by the desire to
achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ~ Ayn
Rand
Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while
creativity is mastery of simplicity. ~ E
Christopher Zeeman
Creativity involves breaking out of established
patterns in order to look at things in a different
way. ~ Edward de Bono
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