Henry Petroski Quotes

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

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

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Talent works, genius creates.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

I start a picture and I finish it.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

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.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

A good artist has less time than ideas.

I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.