Samuel Beckett Quotes

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

Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.

Art is a way of survival.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

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?

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it....for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

To make art you need to be inspired.

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.

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

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.

I am an artist. For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul. And you are like in some kind of possession, where you are doing anything to get the visual. You become another person. You're becoming an artist in action. And then a lot of miracles come. A lot of discovering. It's a very complicated thing.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.