Sam Palladio Quotes

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.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

Photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure. If man wishes to express himself photographically, he must understand, surely to a certain extent, his relationship to life.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

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.

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

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

Make good art.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

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.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

I just sit down and write. I never know when. The most recent one is 'Sarah Still,' which is about our life, Sarah and me. It's my favorite of all my poems.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.