Kevin Abstract Quotes

An empty canvas is full.

Too many creative people don't wanna learn how to be technical, so what happens? They become dependent on technical people. Become technical. You can learn that. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.

Often, especially young artists, you feel like you should be doing something. And I think that can be very destructive because creativity is about connecting with the stuff that's deep inside you and making something out of that.

The Internet's a crazy place to hang out because it's insane to see so many people doing so many creative things all over the map.

I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.

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.

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.

All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.

If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

We're democratizing the tools of creativity.

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

I think it's absolutely essential to encourage creativity. I think we come in as these wide-eyed sponges, ready to create and absorb and evolve, and I think more often than not we are squashed, the older we get.

Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you!

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

When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.

We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.

Everybody's an artist. Unfortunately we don't treat them as such.

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.