Artistic Mind Quotes

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.

A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

It's important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.

I put on the canvas whatever comes into my mind.

I have a very creative mind, and I'm always looking for new stuff and new things.

You write five different things, and none of them work, and then suddenly something does, and you ask yourself, 'Why did that last one work?' I think that's the way the artistic mind works. All writers and artists of all kinds often don't know why things work.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

I think, in any artist's mind, you can't just be into yourself. You have to look at the world in an objective view.

The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

I have creative ADD.

You need a mind open to possibility, conditioned to love the creative spirit we all have inside ourselves.

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.