Northrop Frye Quotes

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

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.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

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.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me.

That's what I find so special: when you actually imagine something. But really, when it comes to you in a dream, and then you can bring it to life on the screen, it's very powerful.

Sometimes I think of creativity or art as this well that we all draw from.

If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.

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

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!