Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

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.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

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.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

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

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Being creative is my idea of heaven. I'm just incredibly fortunate that I can do it in artwork. Watercolor is what I started out with. What I love about watercolor is that a lot of happy accidents occur.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

I don't even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna do now, what am I gonna do later.

I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow… The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward

I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it.

There is no end in creativity. Hence, to strive towards an end result is a fool's errand. Set goals, make music and paint pictures, but know that the crux of your happiness balances delicately on the wings of the act of creativity itself. Not at the finish line.

That's the most important thing in art: to be aware, pay attention, be inspired - but it should come ultimately from you.