Dante Gabriel Rossetti Quotes

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

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

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

Talent works, genius creates.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

I'm interested in creating new work.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

What I do enjoy is the creative process.

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

While most people in the arts think they have to be constantly looking forward to be edgy and creative....the real secret of creativity is to go back and remember.

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.

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.