Quotessence
Home / Topics / Artistic Creation Quotes

Artistic Creation Quotes

Browse 28 quotes about Artistic Creation.

Related topics

Art

Artistic Creation Quotes

“To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It is the self-reliant pioneer in every enterprise who beats the path along which American civilization has marched. Such individual effort is the glory of America.”

SelfAmericaIndividualEffortPathCreationCivilizationAchievementBeatsGloryInventionArtisticEnterprisePioneersSelf ReliantIndividual EffortArtistic Creation
Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
Create image

“Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.”

PeopleMayDoeSoulEnoughRealityEyeFallEmotionBeautyCreationFalling In LoveIntenseArtisticPerceiveTallInwardMarvelousGlimpseNature BeautyExhilarationTiptoesArtistic CreationIntense Emotions
Author:Margaret Prescott Montague
Create image

“What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade you instantly that the paradigmatic artistic experience is that of failure. The actualization fails to meet, equal, the intuition. There is something "out there" which cannot be brought "here". This is standard. I don't mean bad artists, I mean good artists. There is no such thing as a "successful artist" (except, of course, in worldly terms).”

MeanDoeArtArtistCoursesReadingLiteratureTermSuccessfulFailingCreationEqualStandardsIntuitionArtisticWorldlyGood ArtSummaryGood ArtistActualizationArtistic CreationSuccessful Artists
Author:Donald Barthelme
Create image

“A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in the depth of a person's being.. ..It is my belief that only in this Art Brut can we find the natural and normal processes of artistic creation in their pure and elementary state.”

PersonsArtStatesBeliefProcessInterestNaturalOpinionCreationPureNormalHappeningsArt IsDirectDepthArtisticWorks Of ArtProjectionArtistic Creation
Author:Jean Dubuffet
Create image

“What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later...They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are within that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic gods they replaced.”

MindRealMatterRealityFormModernSubjectsCreationObjectsEssentialsGhostInventionArtisticSubstanceImmortalDivisionBeing RealReplacedRationalityMind And MatterArtistic CreationForm And Substance
Author:Robert M. Pirsig
Create image

“For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.”

PeopleThinkingMenArtIdeasPoliticsSidesEnemyEconomyDemocracyCreationMassPropertyArtisticLimitationDiscussionLiberalismArtistic Creation
Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
Create image

“No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.”

WayShouldHumansMayCharacterGovernmentFormPoliticalValuesReligiousRacePrinciplesDemocracyEconomicCreationAdventureExpressionDutyDevelopmentCitizensLimitsPhilosophicalDetermineDoctrineArtisticHuman RaceAestheticLiteracyHistoricValidityArtistic ExpressionArtistic Creation
Author:Richard P. Feynman
Create image

“Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of mastery of the world, it has an infinite number of facets, the vincula that connect man with his vital activity; and even if the path towards knowledge is unending, no step that takes man nearer to a full understanding of the meaning of his existence can be too small to count.”

IfsMenWorldAgeLawUnderstandingNumbersExistenceStepsPathSubjectsCreationActivityAbsolutesInfiniteAimArtisticRelatedMasteryFacetsUnendingArtistic Creation
Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
Create image

“The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.”

ThinkingWantRealWholeUseMightArtistIndividualPrinciplesAchieveCreationBuildingExpressionPerfectionBasesArtisticDestroyingEntityArtistic Creation
Book:Art as Spiritual Activity: Rudolf Steiner's Contribution to the Visual Arts
Create image

“When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to playing off color against color, line against line, form against form, etc., I play off material against material, for example, wood against sackcloth.”

KindDifferentPlayFormLinesStepsTakenExampleCreationColorPaintingMaterialsConceptsMereInsightWoodsOilArtisticEtcDifferent KindsOil PaintingArtistic Creation
Author:Kurt Schwitters
Create image