Creativity Quotes

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."

- Salvador Dali

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

- Charles Bukowski

"A picture is a poem without words."

- Horace

"If there’s ever a problem, I film it and it’s no longer a problem. It’s a film."

- Andy Warhol

"The fine art of painting, which is the bastard of alchemy, always has been always will be, a game. The rules of the game are quite simple: in a given arena, on as many psychic fronts as the talent allows, one must visually describe, the centre of the meaning of existence."

- Brett Whiteley

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."

- Vincent Willem van Gogh

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"It is not intellect but rather imagination that is the source of creativity. What if imagination was nurtured as much if not more in school?"

- Vince Gowmon

"When children pretend, they’re using their imaginations to move beyond the bounds of reality. A stick can be a magic wand. A sock can be a puppet. A small child can be a superhero."

- Fred Rogers

"It is in playing, and only in playing, that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self."

- D.W. Winnicott

"Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is known, or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds?"

- Jean Piaget

"Deep meaning lies often in childish play."

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

- Claude Monet

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own."

- Jackson Pollock

"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"One eye sees, the other feels."

- Paul Klee

"Painting is by nature a luminous language."

- Robert Delaunay

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

- Ambrose Bierce

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

- Henri Matisse

"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."

- G.H. Hardy

"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists."

- John Steinbeck

"You can’t use up creativity. The more the you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do."

- Edgar Degas

"The day is an empty canvas, the shapes and colors are yours to choose."

- Alex Noble

"I would like to paint the way a bird sings."

- Claude Monet

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson