Paul Strand 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.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

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

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.

Make good art.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

Every man is an artist.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.