Art Quote by Rollo May

All artists have to do that at a certain point. This shift that has to happen between the initial moment of creation and then…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the…

— Rainer M. Rilke

It's a thrill to see the birth of an artist.

— Rene Angelil

The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than is the picture. The process in fact is habit-forming

— Lucian Freud

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

— Max Ernst

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

— Willa Cather

The artist must create himself or be born again.

— Denise Levertov

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

— Mel Brooks

Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion in itself, in the dark,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and…

— Carl Jung

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

— Lewis Hyde