Artistic Creation Quotes

• Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

  Albert Camus

  Rejection, Unity, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.253, Vintage

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• The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Men, Effectiveness

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.176, Psychology Press

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• What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade you instantly that the paradigmatic artistic experience is that of failure. The actualization fails to meet, equal, the intuition. There is something "out there" which cannot be brought "here". This is standard. I don't mean bad artists, I mean good artists. There is no such thing as a "successful artist" (except, of course, in worldly terms).

  Donald Barthelme

  Art, Reading, Mean

  "The Sandman". "Sadness". Book by Donald Barthelme, 1972.

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• Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well.

  Fady Joudah

  Independent, Independence, Doe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

  Kafu Nagai

  Compassion, Empathy, Principles

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• We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

  Sigmund Freud

  Hysteria, May, Neurosis

  Sigmund Freud (2009). “Totem and Taboo”, p.96, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

  Plato

  Art, Mean, Men

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• Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.

  Margaret Prescott Montague

  Beauty, Falling In Love, Eye

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• And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .

  Hans Hofmann

  Spiritual, Reality, Self

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.40, MIT Press

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• A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in the depth of a person's being.. ..It is my belief that only in this Art Brut can we find the natural and normal processes of artistic creation in their pure and elementary state.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Art, Depth, Normal

  "Prospectus et tous écrits suivants". Book by Jean Dubuffet, Vol. II, pp. 203-204, 1967.

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• What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later...They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are within that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic gods they replaced.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Mind, Essentials

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Creativity, Hands, Going Away

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• What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

  Johan Huizinga

  Art, History, Common

  Johan Huizinga (1968). “Dutch civilisation in the seventeenth century, and other essays”

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• Ultimately I live in the now with artistic creation, not what could or could not be in the future, if a creation appears timeless in somebody's opinion, it won't in others, that's not for me to guess.

  Justin Broadrick

  Opinion, Timeless, Live In The Now

  Interview with Justinas Mikulskis, secretthirteen.org.

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• Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the studio or writing or whatever, that's the closest moment [to creation]. And that's what keeps all these people addicted to getting back to that moment again.

  Richard Ashcroft

  Writing, Artist, People

  Source: www.excellentonline.com

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• To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It is the self-reliant pioneer in every enterprise who beats the path along which American civilization has marched. Such individual effort is the glory of America.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Self, Individual Effort, Civilization

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at San Diego Exposition in San Diego, California, October 2, 1935.

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• What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.

  Franz Cizek

  Beautiful, Art, Children

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• No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Religious, Philosophical, Character

  "The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist". Book by Richard Feynman, 1999.

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• Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Art, Writing, Games

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• Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of mastery of the world, it has an infinite number of facets, the vincula that connect man with his vital activity; and even if the path towards knowledge is unending, no step that takes man nearer to a full understanding of the meaning of his existence can be too small to count.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Men, Law, Numbers

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• The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according to the same principles as nature, but they apply them to individual entities, while nature, to use a Goethean expression, thinks nothing of individual things. She is always building and destroying, because she wants to achieve perfection, not in the individual thing, but in the whole.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Real, Artist, Thinking

  Rudolf Steiner, Michael Howard (1998). “Art as Spiritual Activity: Rudolf Steiner's Contribution to the Visual Arts”, p.130, SteinerBooks

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• I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.

  Aime Cesaire

  Talking, Land, Essence

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• When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to playing off color against color, line against line, form against form, etc., I play off material against material, for example, wood against sackcloth.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Taken, Color, Play

  "Abstract Art". Book by Anna Moszynska, p. 68-69, 1990.

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• Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

  Charles Frankel

  Worry, Anxiety, Intellectual

  CHARLES FRANKEL (1956). “THE CASE FOR MODERN MAN”

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