Paul Klee Quotes

Great art picks up where nature ends.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Make good art.

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

If you look at the content of songs people write, it's usually about the things they know best.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

Art is born of humiliation.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.