Mary Oliver Quotes

Space is the breath of art.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

There's this feeling of creativity in Iceland.

I want to bring art into everything.

I love being with artists because I'm always open to getting into something.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

All men are creative but few are artists.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

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.

Art is both creation and recreation.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.