Quotes about Creativity

I'd have to listen to somebody - artist or shoe clerk. And the artist is more entertaining because he knows less about what he is trying to do.

CiteÅŸte, citeÅŸte, citeÅŸte. CiteÅŸte totul — gunoi, clasicii, r?ii ÅŸi bunii, ÅŸi vezi cum scriu. La fel ca un tâmplar care lucreaz? ca ucenic ÅŸi îÅŸi studiaz? maestrul. CiteÅŸte! Vei absorbi asta. Apoi scrie. Dac? ai scris ceva bun, vei afla. Dac? nu, arunc? ce-ai scris pe fereastr?.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

I want to reach that state of condensation of sensations which constitutes a picture.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure. It is through it that I best succeed in expressing the almost religious feeling I have towards life.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul