Creativity Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one…

— Pablo Picasso

He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has…

— John Ruskin

The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

— Arthur Wesley Dow

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Inspiration, it is well recognized, rarely comes unless an individual has immersed himself in the subject. He must have a rich background of knowledge…

— Edmund Ware Sinnott

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which…

— Paul Cezanne

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

— Paul Simon

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

— Isaac Asimov

I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by.

— Russell Simmons

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who…

— Virginia Woolf

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

— George Bernard Shaw