Art Quote by Tom T. Hall

If you do not start with the idea, you are creating fine art - its personal, but it tends not to communicate.

— Seymour Chwast

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

The thing is, if you're going to take the artistic path, you sort of have to make peace with the idea or the possibility…

— Lela Loren

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

— Agnes Martin

I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had…

— Vik Muniz

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

— Raoul Peck

I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was…

— Cecily Brown

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

— Andy Rooney

I have no idea of what it's going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You…

— Nick Bantock

When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.

— Matthew Williamson

My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's…

— Ellsworth Kelly

You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus…

— Chuck Close