Paul Simon Quotes

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

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

Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your 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.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

As far as how I create games, I'm just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I put those out there. Some of the things that I'm going through, the things that surround me, might be reflected there. But for me, it's a natural process. I just reflect what I feel into the game.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

I think I take little pieces of inspiration, then kind of do what's real to me and what's going on in my life or what I observe from other people's experiences and hope other people connect with it, too.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that's what art is.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

I can concentrate on my art.

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

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

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

In a lot of ways, the cool thing about modeling is that other people and artists I look up to are able to project their artistic visions onto me, and it was really exciting to be a muse in that way and carry out a vision.