Margaret Fuller Quotes

You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to achieve as an artist - seeing things in a different way. Kids are constantly saying things that are funny and surprising and their observations are just... you know, they're like little artists themselves.

an artist is always seeking revelation.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

As a kid I was creative.

If I have a talent, it lies in the creative process.

I'm an artist in my heart.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

My vision and my creative ability is just so broad.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

All men are creative but few are artists.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

Be the artist you were born to be.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

The Man of Genius may at the same time be, indeed is commonly, an Artist, but the two are not to be confounded. The Man of Genius,referred to mankind, is an originator, an inspired or demonic man, who produces a perfect work in obedience to laws yet unexplored. The artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. There has been no man of pure Genius, as there has been none wholly destitute of Genius.

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.