Quotes on Artists And Creativity

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.