Creativity Quotes

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. " "Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. " "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. " "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. " "There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. " "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. " "Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth" "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." "Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen." "Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not." "To draw you must close your eyes and sing." "I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else." "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." "An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." "A man who has no imagination has no wings." "There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen. There are not" "Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me." "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." "Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world." "Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."