Quotes on Art And Creativity

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun