Quotes on Creative Artists

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.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

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 is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture

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

The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we’re lucky.

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

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.

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.