Quotes about Creativity

Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion, then I go out and paint the stars.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.