Brian Mitchell > Brian's Quotes

“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.”
― Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

“Creativity is an act of defiance.”
― Twyla Tharp

“Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?”
― Salvador Dalí

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola

“You don’t make art out of good intentions.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
― Edgar Degas

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
― Pablo Picasso

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Creativity takes courage. ”
― Henri Matisse

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Do whatever you do intensely.”
― Robert Henri

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
― Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol

“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
― Carrie Fisher

“Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.”
― Frank Zappa

“You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.”
― viggo mortensen

“Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.”
― Charles McCabe

“Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

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― Frederick Franck, A Passion for Seeing: On Being an Image Maker

“This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.”
― Kurt Schwitters

“Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.”
― Barnett Newman

“...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.”
― Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia

“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”
― Edward Hopper

“Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse”
― Volkmar Essers, Matisse

“Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright, Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture

“When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.”
― Robert Bresson

“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
― Maxim Gorky, Lower Depths and Other Plays

“If you know the why, you can live any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche