True art awakens the
Extraordinary
Ovation — Hafez
A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience. — Alfred Stieglitz
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. — Albert Einstein
A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience — Tim Minchin
Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality — Benjamin Franklin
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. — Henri Frederic Amiel
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Short Artistic Genius Quotes
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire. — Bern Williams
A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality. — Plato
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. — John W. Foster
Great artists suffer for the people. — Marvin Gaye
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. — George Jean Nathan
Just like inspiration, genius can also come from some of the strangest places. — Cliff Lerner
Artistic Genius Image Quotes
No artist tolerates reality.
Creative Genius Quotes
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them. — Ludwig von Mises
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition. — Charles Caleb Colton
For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself — Kanye West
A genius always presents himself as a fool.
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. — Dee Hock
If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand. — Alan Cohen
I believe everybody in the world is born with genius-level talent. Apply yourself to whatever you’re genius at and you can do anything in the world. — Jay-Z
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. — Shakti Gawain
The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless. — Eugene H. Peterson
Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things . . . Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative. — Osho
How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. — Henry David Thoreau
Artistic Talent Quotes
Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole. — Pope John Paul II
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it. — Pope John Paul II
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received. — Igor Stravinsky
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who ispires others.
The life's story of great geniuses is a sad one, without much tangible reward, which does not inspire future generations to face a similar fate. Alas also, it stands to reason why so many talent will not come to sparkle on the artistic firmanent. — Joseph Haydn
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. — T. S. Eliot
Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind. — Titian
An idiot with a plan can beat a genius without a plan.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. — T. S. Eliot
Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. — Banksy
When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with. — Roy Lichtenstein
In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Artistic Creativity Quotes
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. — Pablo Picasso
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. — Georgia O'Keeffe
There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence. — Massimo Vignelli
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. — Vincent Van Gogh
Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. — Tina Turner
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has it limits.
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. — Alberto Giacometti
Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms...
Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done. — Joseph Beuys
Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts. — Walter Gropius
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. — Francisco Goya
Musical Genius Quotes
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? — Robert Fripp
I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work. — Michel Petrucciani
Every artist was first an amateur.
When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys. — Casey Affleck
Music may not make you a genius, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently, to process different points of view — and most important, to take pleasure in listening. — Joanne Lipman
Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius. — James Weldon Johnson
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climd a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds. — Ouida
Skrillex. The man is a genius and paved a new way for music and it's very inspiring. — Christina Grimmie
Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent the quintessence of American independence, fortitude, genius, and madness. — Paul Burch
Artistic Ability Quotes
When you look at the greatest artists and creators, they have this ability to start over that nobody else does. — Naval Ravikant
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. — Fran Lebowitz
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. — Paul Klee
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. — Daniel H. Pink
The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops. — Igor Babailov
I think that one of the reasons that we chose the word love as the subject is because your human connection and how you affect everybody around you, you'll only understand the gravity of that as you pass later on in life. I think as artists it's our ability to communicate that in certain ways. — Tom DeLonge
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist
Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw. — Daniel H. Pink
Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change. — LeCrae
I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell. — Tom DeLonge
The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting. — Frantisek Kupka
Talent And Genius Quotes
Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge. — Robert Greene
... it is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre. — Maria W. Stewart
Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty. — Louisa May Alcott
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent. — Joe Strummer
Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion. — Max Stirner
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. — Thomas Huxley
All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent. — John F. Kennedy
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius. — William Blake
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. — Carl Jung
True Genius Quotes
I’m very proud of Seungri. I worked over a year for my album, but one day YG told Seungri to make an album and he made one in just 2 weeks. Ah, maybe 3 weeks. He’s a true genius. I’m jealous of his propulsion. — G-Dragon
Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true. — Neville Goddard
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought. — Robert Greene
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. — Jonathan Swift
Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which a true genius naturally riseth, by a certain climax or gradation of thought, and without which he can never possess his soul in absolute liberty and repose. — George Berkeley
Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential. — Mary Russell Mitford
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius. — Felix Schelling
Who knows? He [Elon Musk] is a weird guy… He is a true genius and look at the world fundamentally differently than most people do. — Charles Hoskinson
As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see. — Diego Rivera
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. — Steve Jobs
The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it. — Ellsworth Kelly
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. — Georges Seurat
True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world. — Oskar Kokoschka
I assure you, we do not lurk around every corner, questioning every creative decision. The most successful creative people… want to see their creations in the street. They don’t invent just to invent. — Bernard Arnault
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. — James Whistler
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. — Edward Hopper
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization. — Abraham Maslow
Redemption in Christ should give the artistically gifted not only a new orientation and a new sense of purpose, but also a new vision of reality, seeing the world through the eyes of faith, looking at the human condition through the eyes of Christ. — John Walford
Artistic Life Quotes
The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design. — Massimo Vignelli
To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life — Diego Rivera
The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins. — Joan D. Chittister
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. — Margot Fonteyn
Make your life your art. It doesn't have to be that you're an artist. I know I talk about art a lot, but I mean a very broad thing with that. You could be a veterinarian, that's your art. Find your art; find your thing you love. — Gerard Way
Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love — Marc Chagall
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. — Pablo Picasso
Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist. — Anais Nin
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being. — Wassily Kandinsky
I would rather die of passion than of boredom. — Emile Zola
Artistic Expression Quotes
For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium. — Alexander McQueen
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing. — Louise Bourgeois
The true artists that make LVMH a success… They want people to wear their dresses, or spray their perfume, or carry the luggage they have designed. — Bernard Arnault
Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter. — John Frusciante
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. — Jackson Pollock
If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist must not fear to be himself, to express only himself. If he is absolutely and entirely sincere, what he says and does will be acceptable to others. — Marc Chagall
The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to. — Kendrick Lamar
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing. — Marc Chagall
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means. — Bela Bartok
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter. — Langston Hughes
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. — Albert Pike
If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage. — Del Close
Designers are closer to artists than to engineers. They’re not like normal managers, and you have to balance their creativity and rationality. John, Karl, Marc, they’re genius. You can’t put them into a rational environment. They’re sometimes late, and you have to accept that if you work with them, you have to be understanding with them. — Bernard Arnault
History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses. — John Eliot
Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach. — Pearl S. Buck
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. — Henry David Thoreau
The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason. — Jacques-Louis David
Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him. — Peter O'Toole
To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius. — Bruce Lee
In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity. — Marcel Duchamp
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. So let's have no talk of temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. I love them all. — Charles Saatchi
There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case. Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius — and I count myself among these — have to restore the lost connection once more. — KaThe Kollwitz
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit. — Ludwig von Mises
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please. — Andre Malraux
His [Michael Jackson] behavior was weird, but when you get an artist and a genius, many of the geniuses throughout our whole history were weird. And they did weird things because none of us could understand what was on their mind and why they did what they did. — Berry Gordy
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with Normal Life are bullshit artists of the highest degree, looking to excuse their antisocial tendencies and bad manners away with a flourish of vocabulary and the semantic waving of hands. — Matt Fraction
Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it. — Robert Anton Wilson
The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the goal.
While he is perhaps being admired by others, he mourns the fact that he has not yet reached the point to which his better genius, like a distant sun, ever beckons to him. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex. — Napoleon Hill
The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living. — Albert Einstein
Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. — W. Winwood Reade
They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist. — Rick Yune
The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski
To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless. — Albert Camus
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere. — Beck
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? — Charles de Lint
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius. — John Philip Sousa
One genius has made many clever artists. — Martial
Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. — William Winwood Reade
You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth. — John Lasseter
The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived. — Leon Krier
The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. — Gosta Mittag-Leffler
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. — William Winwood Reade
There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist. — Thomas Hoving
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. — Charles Saatchi
True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down. — Oliver Goldsmith
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J. S. Mill called a "moral police," is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products. If one day they ban mediocre books as obscene, another day they may do likewise to a work of genius. — Jerome Frank
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience. — Martin Filler
Every art critic and every writer doesn't have a frame to start off from. If I made a statement saying, "This is Abstract Expressionism," they could go, "Well, he failed miserably," or, "Fantastic, this is a new genius!" But in art history, I don't see any of the artists I like spewing bullshit. I don't see anyone recording it or pronouncing what they were doing. — Damian Loeb
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