“The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.”— Henri Matisse, en.wikiquote.org
“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.”— Henri Matisse, en.wikiquote.org
“I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work — he is in touch with the child. He is not rational, he is impulsive and e…”— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org
“In this profession, I always admire people who are going on, who have a sort of idea and, however crazy it is, are putting it through; they are putting people and things together, and they make something. I always admire this.”— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org
“The ability to create was a gift. In such a world flourished invulnerable assurance and natural humility. Today the individual has become the highest form and the greatest bane of artistic creation.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com
“I hate flowers — I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move!”— Georgia O’Keeffe, amazon.com
“I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, goodreads.com
“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, goodreads.com
“We must all begin to question the experts. They have not really been right. No abundance of material goods can compensate for the death of individuality and personal creativity.”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org
“Every creative act, no matter how small, is a triumph over death and despair.”— Michael Lipsey, stoicmike.tumblr.com
“Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.”— David Byrne, amazon.com
“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity — he is continually informing — and filling some other body.”— John Keats, en.wikiquote.org
“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.”— John Keats, en.wikiquote.org
“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”— Albert Einstein, goodreads.com