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“You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.”

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Marc Chagall, born on July 6, 1887, and died on March 28, 1985, was a prominent Jewish artist from Russia. Known for his unique use of color and dreamlike style, Chagall's works often blend Jewish traditions and Russian folk art elements. more

“Creative power has to filter through our beliefs, attitudes, emotions, and habits. The more negative and constricted our beliefs and patterns are, the more they block the creative energy. Most people hope that by ignoring negativity, it will go away, but the reverse is actually true. Through recognizing, acknowledging, and experiencing it, the blocked energy can be released. You are then free to replace it with positive beliefs and attitudes.”

Source: Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations

“A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.”

Mind Art Belief Empty Filled Cups Dogma Quotations Assertion Creative Mind

Book:The First and Last Freedom

Source: The First and Last Freedom

“The refusal to be creative is an act of self-will and is counter to our true nature. When we are open to our creativity, we are opening to God: good, orderly direction. As we pursue our creative fulfillment, all elements of our life move toward harmony. As we strengthen our creativity, we strengthen our connection to the Creator within. Artists love other artists. Our relationship to God is co-creative, artist to artist. It is God's will for us to live in creative abundance.”

“I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown-no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.”

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe

“I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and I told him that I thought he had played particularly sensitively that day. I said, "You know, many pianists are brilliant, they strike the keys so well, but somehow you are different." "Ah," he said, "I don't think you should ever strike a key. You should pull the keys with your fingers."”

Thinking Knows Men Should Wells Art Said Different Talking Keys One Day Fingers Strikes Brilliant Sensitive Concerts Good Friend Pianist Talking To Him Sensitive Man

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.”

Art Two Ideas Inspiration Hours Creative Eight Desks Loafing

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen.”

Art Happens Waiting Creator Strings Puppets Waiting For Something

Book:When God becomes a drug: breaking the chains of religious addiction & abuse

Source: When God becomes a drug: breaking the chains of religious addiction & abuse

“Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing, or has already passed, or we can remain accessible to-even surrender to-the creative process, without insisting that we know in advance the ultimate outcome for us, our institutions, or our planet. To accept this challenge is to cherish freedom, to embrace life, and to find meaning.”

Quote by Marc Chagall

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