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Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
Sep 29, 2025
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.
Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Art is anything you can get away with.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Design is where science and art break even.
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
There is no must in art because art is free.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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