Paul Newman Quotes

A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.

I show elements of the set in my pictures because it's not real. When I see movies, I often love the 'making of' more than the movie itself. It's not so final. When you have a woman just standing there, it doesn't mean much.

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

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

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

Modeling, for me, isn't about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to look at and think about.

I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you created based on what I created.'

When you make a piece, one of the interesting things is hearing what other people think about it.

When I take from my influences, it's rare that I do it literally.

Life and art are inseparable.

I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.

The artist is called a creator.

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

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

It's true that I can write a song and not really be sure what the meaning of it is.