Able Quote by Carl Jung

No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human…

— Rudolf Arnheim

It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

— Anonymous

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

— Julia Cameron

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things,…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.

— Robert Toth

All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind ,…

— Joseph Conrad

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

— Emile Zola

The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There, free of…

— Pavel Florensky

An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known.…

— Julia Cameron

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live…

— George Saunders