No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
What is art but a way of seeing?
Saul Bellow
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C.S Lewis
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
Anne Frank
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Blaise Pascal
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
