Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

I want to bring art into everything.

Somebody once asked me, 'What do you do?' and I flippantly answered 'I'm a cultural engineer.' With hindsight, I kind of am - but if I got too self-conscious about it, it wouldn't work.

We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's journey. It's a pretty amazing path.

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!

I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

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.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.

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.

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.