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"Say yes if you are an artist. Say yes if you have known it from the
beginning of time." Rumni, 13th century mystic poet
"Art can't hurt you." Fred Babb
"So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering." Brenda Ueland
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"I do not want to go until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me." Kathe Kollwitz
"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." Gene Fowler
"An artist should not treat himself like an enemy." Eugene Delacoix
"Observe your work. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work, than from others." John Sloan
"As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror." Franz Liszt
"Greatness breaks laws." Louise Nevelson
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." William Faulkner
"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe." Daisaku Ikeda, Buddhist thinker, author and educator
"Things are not difficult to make. What is difficult is putting ourselves in a state of mind to make them." Constantin Brancusi
"The wonderful thing about working is that the more you do it, the easier it is to do, and the less likely it is you'll get stuck." Anna Held Audette
"I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within." Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) sculptor, painter
"I dream my painting and then I paint my dream." Vincent Van Gogh
"A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain." Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) sculptor, painter
"Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground." Unknown
"That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art." John A. Locke
"Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness." Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Art is a wound turned into light." Georges Braque
"Never ask whether you can do something. Say instead that you are going to do it, then fasten your seat belt." Julia Cameron
"I'm not living the blues; I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am." Alberta Hunter (1895-1988) US blues singer
"I sang in the coffee houses . . . in the early 60's with no idea of "success" in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I had this deep, bassy voice. But I had incredible passion for the music I was singing." Judy Collins (1934- ) US opera singer
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts." Rita Mae Brown
"While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness." Gilda Radner
"Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing." Julia Cameron, from her book The Artist's Way
"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint." Georgia O'Keeffe (1907-1973) English-US poet, dramatist, editor
"The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the "creative" is the desire to kill." May Sarton (1907-1973) English-US poet, dramatist, editor
"Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here." Patty Mitchell, founder and director of Passionworks Studio in Ohio
"The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything." John Irving
"Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility." Katherine Paterson
"Art is not a part of life, it is not an addition to life, it is the essence of those pieces of us that make us fulfilled. That give us hope." Hasan Davis, artist, attorney, and activist
"When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued." Julia Cameron,
"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things." Ray Bradbury
"The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally, and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing . . ." Jessye Norman (1945- ) US operatic and concert singer
"Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man." Paul Robeson (1898-1976) US athlete, scholar, actor, singer
"...what we make with our hands is to be sacred and to honor the Earth that gives us life..." William McDonough
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." Carl Jung
"Courage does not mean lack of fear, for only the foolish are fearless; it means doing things in spite of your fear. Confront those fears, take risks for what you believe, for it is only then you will find what you are capable of; you will discover that if your intentions are good, the worst your opponents can do to you is really not that bad. Go out and make a difference in this world." Kofi Annan, Secretary General, United Nations
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein
"Art can't hurt you." Fred Babb
"So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering." Brenda Ueland
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"I do not want to go until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me." Kathe Kollwitz
"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." Gene Fowler
"An artist should not treat himself like an enemy." Eugene Delacoix
"Observe your work. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work, than from others." John Sloan
"As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror." Franz Liszt
"Greatness breaks laws." Louise Nevelson
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." William Faulkner
"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe." Daisaku Ikeda, Buddhist thinker, author and educator
"Things are not difficult to make. What is difficult is putting ourselves in a state of mind to make them." Constantin Brancusi
"The wonderful thing about working is that the more you do it, the easier it is to do, and the less likely it is you'll get stuck." Anna Held Audette
"I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within." Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) sculptor, painter
"I dream my painting and then I paint my dream." Vincent Van Gogh
"A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain." Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) sculptor, painter
"Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground." Unknown
"That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art." John A. Locke
"Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness." Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Art is a wound turned into light." Georges Braque
"Never ask whether you can do something. Say instead that you are going to do it, then fasten your seat belt." Julia Cameron
"I'm not living the blues; I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am." Alberta Hunter (1895-1988) US blues singer
"I sang in the coffee houses . . . in the early 60's with no idea of "success" in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I had this deep, bassy voice. But I had incredible passion for the music I was singing." Judy Collins (1934- ) US opera singer
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts." Rita Mae Brown
"While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness." Gilda Radner
"Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing." Julia Cameron, from her book The Artist's Way
"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint." Georgia O'Keeffe (1907-1973) English-US poet, dramatist, editor
"The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the "creative" is the desire to kill." May Sarton (1907-1973) English-US poet, dramatist, editor
"Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here." Patty Mitchell, founder and director of Passionworks Studio in Ohio
"The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything." John Irving
"Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility." Katherine Paterson
"Art is not a part of life, it is not an addition to life, it is the essence of those pieces of us that make us fulfilled. That give us hope." Hasan Davis, artist, attorney, and activist
"When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued." Julia Cameron,
"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things." Ray Bradbury
"The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally, and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing . . ." Jessye Norman (1945- ) US operatic and concert singer
"Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man." Paul Robeson (1898-1976) US athlete, scholar, actor, singer
"...what we make with our hands is to be sacred and to honor the Earth that gives us life..." William McDonough
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." Carl Jung
"Courage does not mean lack of fear, for only the foolish are fearless; it means doing things in spite of your fear. Confront those fears, take risks for what you believe, for it is only then you will find what you are capable of; you will discover that if your intentions are good, the worst your opponents can do to you is really not that bad. Go out and make a difference in this world." Kofi Annan, Secretary General, United Nations
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein