Paulo Coelho Quotes

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.

I'm the seventh child among eight siblings and have always had a gift for art.

I think if you have an eye and the ability and the confidence as a designer, you can turn your hand to anything.

Writing is not my forte, but I am good at visualising.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

I don't feel, God dictated that I should write.

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.

For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.

The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.

A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.

Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

Usually I'm able to imagine something and it comes out as I imagined, more or less.

Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.

The creative part, with the writing of it and the vision, and finding the voice of a show and the characters, is much harder to teach somebody. It's like music. You can either play it or you can't. If you can't play music and you really struggle and work hard, you can learn, but you have to have some inner gift to take it to the next level.

Color cannot stand alone.