Art Quote by F.T. McKinstry

“The soul of an artist is a tortured one, forever capturing their version of reality.”

— Belinda Taylor

Creativity has to start somewhere, and we are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback, and the iterative process - reworking, reworking,…

— Edwin Catmull

“An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and transforms these…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a soul tortured…

— Lawrence Durrell

If we put our soul into our work, if, rather than just going through the motions, what we do flows from the deepest part…

— Harold S. Kushner

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A person’s work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative impulses. A…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“I know that I stopped thinking about extreme grief as the sole vehicle for great art when the grief started to take people with…

— Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

“All great work—artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual—is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves…

— Walpola Rahula

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

— Montgomery Clift

“The power of creativity does not just lie in an artist’s work, but also in how he or she continues to create regardless of…

— Sharon Louden

“Venture deep into the wilderness of lost thought to the point that you physically shiver with apprehension, and there you will find creativity”

— Carl Henegan