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A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. (Frank Capra)

The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made. (Ferruccio Busoni)

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. (Van Wyck Brooks) Tags: man, war

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; my business is to create. (William Blake)

Creativity is not a motive, it's simply an attitude of open-mindedness. (Eleanor Blair)

Creation is such an elusive thing, for the more we think we are in control, the more we remove ourselves from the actual creation. (Betty Jean Billups)

No other concept challenges the mind as powerfully as spiritual oneness, because oneness is total and has no opposite. (Philippe Benichou)

The search for the spirit... insists on the collaboration of the different basins of knowledge found in the diverse cultures our world has manufactured. (Carlos Rodriguez Amadeo)

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. (Victor Hugo)

Everyone has dreams, but for too many they are lost along the way to conformity. (Hap Hagood) Tags: way

Everything is but a dream! (Johanna van Gogh)

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Begin it now. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it... (Paul Gauguin)

I dream about the sensation of making a mark, and I very rarely have nightmares. (Martin Fuller)

Figures and objects in modern painting may appear distorted... The special forms, evolved from the relation of color masses, line and composition, to express the painter's reaction to objects, will be the reason for a painting's existence. (Robert......

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. (John Ciardi)

In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact. (Theodor W. Adorno) Tags: art

"Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colours, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential." -- Wassily Kandinsk......

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time. ::: Cy Twombly :::

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion. ::: Euan Uglow :::