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The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know…

— Lukas Foss

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

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and…

— Terence McKenna

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

— Rollo May

The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates…

— Samuel R. Delany

In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.

— Marcel Duchamp

The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.

— Arthur Koestler

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it’s about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be…

— Austin Kleon

“Do your creative work for the inside of you, not the reaction of the outside world.”

— Sarkov

A creative act enhances the beauty of the world; it gives something to the world, it never takes anything from it. A creative person…

— Rajneesh

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.

— Marcel Duchamp

Creative expression is not just a means of getting attention, although some have approached art that way. Think of art as a way of…

— Nita Leland