Art Quote by Henri Matisse Download Open image “...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.” — Henri Matisse ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Driven Grows Ideas Motivation
I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
This is one of my big things of creative pursuits. You have your idea you want to do, but then you got to figure… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in visualizing something, whether it's a memory or an idea you want to be true. I am a big believer… — Charlie McDowell Copy Share Image
If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
If I want to get my ideas out, I have to be involved in the mechanism that the world is ran by. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Working with existing pictures, like I do, you constantly think about the flood of images we are subjected to and you want to figure… — Thomas Demand Copy Share Image
Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
I feel like creating things without getting too hung up on little details, and paying more attention to the importance to the concept itself,… — Takashi Tokita Copy Share Image
When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt I was… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
