Quotes on Artists 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.

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

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.

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

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

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

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.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

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

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

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

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.