Alexandra Guarnaschelli Quotes

Insight is the first condition of Art.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

My process of working is that I don't create a picture, I find it.

I get lost in my right brain, especially in creative things.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

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

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

Even though people think I am more of a conceptual artist, I am actually very intuitive. For me, it is still a matter of allowing things to naturally rise to the top of my mental pile, and then I make them.

Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.

I am interested in relating the things we see with the things we see with our eyes closed.

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.

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded.

I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.