creativity Quotes

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.