Active Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus…

— Hans Hofmann

“We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out…

— G.K. Chesterton

“With the manipulation of abstract symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and, sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the…

— Jonathan Culver

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

— Ernst Haas

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding…

— Wendell Pierce

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...

— Henri Matisse

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

— Salvador de Madariaga

All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the…

— Albert Schweitzer

It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and…

— Carl Jung

Art does not imitate, but interpret.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and…

— Joseph Conrad