Best artist & creativity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.”

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“Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.”

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Author:Maurice Saatchi

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

“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.”

Source: The Portable Conrad

“When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.”

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Author:Twyla Tharp

“In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.”

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Book:The complete works of Marcel Duchamp

Source: The complete works of Marcel Duchamp

“Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.”

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Book:The seventh seal: a film

Source: The seventh seal: a film

“It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this sense of timing, that he or she respect... periods of receptivity as part of the mystery of creativity and creation.”

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Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.”

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Author:Roger Scruton

“With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.”

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Author:Kazimir Malevich

“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.”

Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.”

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Author:Richard Pousette-Dart

“Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers have not to show their paintings or writings before they are finished.”

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Book:The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

Source: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

“To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.”

Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary from artist to artist from musician to performer to vocalist. I thrive on creativity. So in the long run I want to be an all around entertainer.”

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Author:Christina Aguilera

“Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure.”

“Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.”

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Book:The Illustrated Book of Tea

Source: The Illustrated Book of Tea

“I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.”

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Author:Lawrence Lessig

“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”

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Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.”

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Author:Alex Grey

“Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!”

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Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.”

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Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“To be an artist and to be recognized by another artist who is, you know, just something you can't even put into words, someone that is so far beyond what the normal human being experience is in terms of creativity and originality. That was kind of a moment where I thought wow maybe I do have something more that makes me special.”

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Author:Misty Copeland

“I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.”

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Author:Anne Rivers Siddons

“Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come to an end, and this is more observable in the West and not in the East, since in the East there are plenty of untouched and unexplored spaces that could still inspire an artist as sources of creativity.”

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Author:Guity Novin

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