The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful. — George Bellows
The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination. — Max Planck
I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life. — D.T. Suzuki
A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality. — Plato
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. — George Santayana
That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos. — Ursula Nordstrom
The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him. — Allan Kaprow
An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art — Lee Simonson
To be an artist is to believe in life. — Henry Moore
Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play. — Henri Matisse
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. — Andy Warhol
Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind. — Robert Toth
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist. — Eric Gill
An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar. — Maya Lin
To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye. — Marvin Gaye
Short Creative Artist Quotes
I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls. — Meher Baba
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. — Albert Einstein
I am an artist. I am here to live out loud. — Emile Zola
The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist. — Ananda Coomaraswamy
Maybe it won't work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.
I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be. — Meek Mill
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. — Langston Hughes
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
No artist tolerates reality.
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
Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine. — Marco Pierre White
Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and spirit, your heaven and hell, until you land in the moment of sweet surrender; when you, as a dancer, disappear into the dance. — Gabrielle Roth
To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life — Diego Rivera
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people's creativity. People don't go to Toyota to 'work' they go there to 'think'. — Taiichi Ohno
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. — Mae Jemison
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old — Peter Drucker
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. — Mel Brooks
What Is Creativity Quotes
Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life? — Jean Piaget
A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on. — Katherine Dunham
My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants. — Moshe Feldenkrais
When you build in silence, people don't know what to attack.
The important thing is to use the role as a trampoline, a chance to study and play with what is behind our masks. Creativity, especially where acting is concerned, Is boundless sincerity, yet disciplined. — Jerzy Grotowski
Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don’t have any belief then you can’t give anything—designing is an act of giving, and a belief in the value of the work fuels the desire to express something. It’s important to know what your values are and to take care of them. — Peter Saville
The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity. — D.T. Suzuki
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. — Rumi
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. — Steve Ballmer
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus
If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life. — Francis Schaeffer
Artistic Creativity Quotes
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
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
I think it's necessary to let kids get bored once in a while - that's how they learn to be creative.
We did not begin the creative process by talking about the bottom line. — Bernard Arnault
I wanted to change up the tempo and setting of my comics in the sense of giving them some variety, for one thing. — Akira Toriyama
We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best. — Leontyne Price
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who ispires others.
Marc Jacobs, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen are innovators; fashion inventors; artists who create. — Bernard Arnault
Creativity is your best makeup skill, don't be afraid to experiment. — Pat McGrath
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. — Massimo Vignelli
You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity. — Banksy
Artists And Creativity Quotes
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense. — Bruno Munari
Our whole business is based on giving our artists and designers complete freedom to invent without limits. — Bernard Arnault
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
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. — Igor Stravinsky
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. — Montgomery Clift
With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create. — Kazimir Malevich
Balance is not something you find. It's something you create.
Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance. — Jon Franklin
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing. — Marc Chagall
For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom. — Yukio Mishima
I want to make music and songs about things that real musicians and artists aren't able to make songs about - you wouldn't hear Justin Bieber making a song about homework, or, like, you wouldn't see someone make a song with their parents on the track. — Jake Paul
Creative Art Quotes
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. — Mark Rothko
Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part of us and a manifestation of the same thing... the arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity — Mae Jemison
Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all. — Gilles Deleuze
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects. — Wassily Kandinsky
Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God. — Francis Schaeffer
When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very nature of the medium itself. I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within — Pipilotti Rist
The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story and art all by yourself. — Akira Toriyama
To me, a house is like a piece of art that you can live in. — Tom Bilyeu
There should be something revelatory about art.
It should be totally creative and open doors
for new thoughts and experiences. — Tracey Emin
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind. — Magdalena Abakanowicz
Creative Person Quotes
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein
It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self. — Donald Woods Winnicott
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift. — Septima Poinsette Clark
Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. — Neil Gaiman
Have patience with all things - but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that. — Saint Francis de Sales
Adidas is a very personal inspiration to me. It has enriched my creative life. It's an exchange between different cultures, different ideas, and most of all, it is teamwork. — Yohji Yamamoto
Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity. — Viola Spolin
For a long time, I've loved the kind of characters who are boastful yet petty. — Akira Toriyama
It's a meeting between two personalities of different natures—the creative people and the organizers, water and fire. But out of the contradiction can come progress. — Bernard Arnault
Weekly, monthly, or whatever, I'm just not good with being told I have to finish up according to a set schedule. — Akira Toriyama
Creative Life Quotes
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo
A successful life is an authentic life. Happiness and creativity rest on a foundation of transparency to yourself and others. Knowing your own heart and speaking clearly to others keep you on the path. — Gay Hendricks
Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind. — Donald Woods Winnicott
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. — Denis Waitley
Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work. — Lewis Grizzard
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity. — William S. Burroughs
Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory. — Osho
Life is about using the whole box of crayons. — RuPaul
Free your mind and your ass will follow — George Clinton
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. — Sylvia Plath
Creative Work Quotes
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. — Rita Mae Brown
All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention. — Joline Godfrey
My work is to help innovators and designers understand that the success of their creativity is in large part based on the success of their products. — Bernard Arnault
Artists who are able to continually create great works throughout their lives often manage to preserve these childlike qualities. Practicing a way of being that allows you to see the world through uncorrupted, innocent eyes can free you to act in concert with the universe’s timetable. — Rick Rubin
The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking. — George Nelson
When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control. — Rick Rubin
When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect. — Bernard Arnault
If you look over a creative person’s shoulder, he will stop doing great work. — Bernard Arnault
Creative Expression Quotes
Music is something I've always been interested in and incorporated into my videos. — Jake Paul
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure. — Arsene Wenger
Expressing oneself in the world and creativity are the same. It may not be possible to know who you are without somehow expressing it. — Rick Rubin
The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act. — Andrei Tarkovsky
A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the "popular" choice. — Tabatha Coffey
The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the storys narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up. — Chris Van Allsburg
I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character. — Suzanne Vega
The nice thing about gag manga is how it has this aspect where, at the very least, you're permitted to come out with anything. — Akira Toriyama
The creative person finds himself in a state of turmoil, restlessness, emptiness, and unbearable frustration unless he expresses his inner life in some creative way. — Silvano Arieti
As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world. — Anna Halprin
Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years. — Frank Gehry
No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing that I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity. — Faith Ringgold
Designers are closer to artists than to engineers. — Bernard Arnault
When I draw something, the incredibly annoying thing is that it doesn't come out like I pictured. — Akira Toriyama
Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. — Andy Warhol
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
When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child. — Akira Toriyama
Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation — Mr. Brainwash
When I got into the second half of 'Dragon Ball,' I had already become more interested in thinking up the story then in drawing the pictures. Then I started to not place much emphasis on the pictures. — Akira Toriyama
Most artists don’t go around proclaiming, ‘I want to be a commercial success.’ They would actually hate to say that. — Bernard Arnault
Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that some meaning can be constructed out of them. That's really where the work of the artist begins. — Lewis Baltz
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. — Marcel Duchamp
Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals while enjoying the process, being ambitious without being too competitive. — Chris Sharma
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