Creativity Quotes

"The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's."

"I never wanted to do anything but painting."

"I think everybody is plastic, but I'd like to be made of vinyl."

"I love plastic bags and disposable culture."

"Art should be beautiful, terrible, or ugly."

"Creativity is the mark of a free society."

"Creativity flourishes in freedom."

"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."

"I have nothing to declare except my genius."

"The act of creation is just as important as the art itself."

"The works must be created between my heart and hands."

"The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need."

"Every form of genius is the expansion of youth."

"I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better."

"My paint brush goes on strike, refuses to obey my will."

"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."

"I created myself anew as I went along, like Michelangelo."

"I paint and paint to fill the void inside."

"Study the science of art and the art of science."

"It is better to imitate a masterpiece than to invent a mediocrity."

"The depth of feeling determines the height of creation."

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."

"Good artists copy, great artists steal."

"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense."

"To know what you want to draw, you have to begin drawing."

"Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. I make a drawing, and I make another kind of drawing at all."

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something."

"Genius is childhood recaptured at will."

"One must always have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

"Normality is a paved road: it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it."