Quotes on Creative Art

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

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

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.

In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and functional bridge without a knowledge of steel and dirt, and a considerable mathematical technique for using this knowledge to compute the properties of structures. Similarly, one cannot build a beautiful computer system without a deep understanding of how to "previsualize" the process generated by the code one writes.

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.

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

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Science is not formal logic-it needs the free play of the mind in as great a degree as any other creative art. It is true that this is a gift which can hardly be taught, but its growth can be encouraged in those who already posses it.

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

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

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art. There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance.

Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.

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.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

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

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.