creativity Quotes

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.