Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

The art of making art, is putting it together.

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

If I was painting a picture, I wouldn't want to take a picture of a single paint stroke. I'd rather show people what it looks like when it's done.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

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.

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

My painting does not come from the easel.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

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

The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.