Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Make good art.

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

For me, when we came out with a TV show, my HBO show, so much of the feedback was, "How do I do it?" And my response was always the same: "Just make something." Stop talking about it. You do in a way that the work takes on a life of its own. Like the "Signature" series [(2008), in which the artist trekked across the United States in the shape of his own signature] was a simple concept that became this story about the people you met along the way.

Artists need to express.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

I think at any point, as an artist, whatever the medium - just having an audience means the world.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

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

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.

When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, 'This is my vision.'

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.