Art Quote by E. M. Forster

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.

— E. M. Forster

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

— Henri Matisse

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his world.

— Rollo May

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 creative person finds himself in a state of turmoil, restlessness, emptiness, and unbearable frustration unless he expresses his inner life in some creative…

— Silvano Arieti

This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if…

— Georgiana Burne-Jones

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

— Anthony Storr

If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the…

— Antoni Tapies

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does…

— Jacob Bronowski

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

— Michelangelo

When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness…

— Eric Maisel