Edgar Degas Quotes

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

Creativity is a process more often than it is an event.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been in studios so often, I know the whole process. The mystery's gone from it. I think it's important to keep mystery into our lives. There's a longing connected with it.

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.

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

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

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

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.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

The intellect is not the means of creation, and creation does not take place through the functioning of the intellect; on the contrary, there is creation when the intellect is silent.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.