Leon Max Quotes

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

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.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!!

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively.

God is the creativity, so if you really want to enter into the world of God you will have to learn the ways of creativity - and that has disappeared. Instead of creativity we value productivity: we talk about how to produce more. Production can give you things but cannot give you values. Production can make you rich outwardly but it will impoverish you inwardly. Production is not creation. Production is very mediocre; any stupid person can do it, one simply needs to learn the knack of it.

there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.

Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried!

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.

We were put on this earth to make things.

I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.

Discipline gives you the freedom to be creative.

At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.

Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.

If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

But unless we are creators, we are not fully alive.

To be creative you actually have to do something.

Do the thing itself. Don’t pay much mind to critics or what anyone says about it. Just do it, in any form possible, and watch others doing it. Take it in viscerally, get it by osmosis. Don’t ever read your own reviews, certainly not the good ones.

I think the world is changing and all that matters is that I'm creating things.

- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!? - You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!