Chinua Achebe Quotes

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

Life and art are inseparable.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

Through art, you create your own world.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Artists need to express.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Making art is different for everyone.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Make good art.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.