creativity Quotes

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.