FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT ART, IMAGINATION AND CREATIVITY

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. Jules Feiffer (1929 - )

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

An idea is salvation by imagination. Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams (1957 - ), 'The Dilbert Principle'

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Every artist was first an amateur. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Art is the illusion of spontaneity. Japanese Proverb

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it. Louis I Kahn

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art. Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."John Steinbeck