We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions -… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for… — Kurt Schwitters Copy Share Image
The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Ultimately I live in the now with artistic creation, not what could or could not be in the future, if a creation… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small… — Franz Cizek Copy Share Image
Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it… — Margaret Prescott Montague Copy Share Image
Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the… — Richard Ashcroft Copy Share Image
One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed,… — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. — Charles Frankel Copy Share Image
The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that… — Plato Copy Share Image
Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the… — Kafu Nagai Copy Share Image
Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality . — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image