Quotations About Creativity
Creative minds have been known to survive any sort of bad training. ~ Anna Freud, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense, 1946.
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis (1885-1957), Greek novelist.
The creative process? . . . You must say to yourself I feel like doing so and so, I think it's that simple. ~ Louise Nevelson (1899-1988), American sculptor.
Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day. ~ Joel Peter Witkin (1939-), American photographer.
To be an artist is to believe in life. ~ Henry Moore (1898-1986), English sculptor.
~ The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) American diplomat, writer, and First Lady of the United States from 1933-45.
I used my imagination ... to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be. ~ Whoopi Goldberg, contemporary American comedian.
All profound original art looks ugly at first. ~ Clement Greenberg (1909-1994), American art critic.
In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain...you have got to sacrifice something you are not quite pleased with in order to get something better. ~ Graham Sutherland (1903-1980), British painter. Daily Express, November 30, 1954.
Creative minds have been known to survive any sort of bad training. ~ Anna Freud, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense, 1946.
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis (1885-1957), Greek novelist.
The creative process? . . . You must say to yourself I feel like doing so and so, I think it's that simple. ~ Louise Nevelson (1899-1988), American sculptor.
Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day. ~ Joel Peter Witkin (1939-), American photographer.
To be an artist is to believe in life. ~ Henry Moore (1898-1986), English sculptor.
~ The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) American diplomat, writer, and First Lady of the United States from 1933-45.
I used my imagination ... to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be. ~ Whoopi Goldberg, contemporary American comedian.
All profound original art looks ugly at first. ~ Clement Greenberg (1909-1994), American art critic.
In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain...you have got to sacrifice something you are not quite pleased with in order to get something better. ~ Graham Sutherland (1903-1980), British painter. Daily Express, November 30, 1954.
