creativity Quotes

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.