Milan Kundera Quotes

Creative instinct is personal.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

I made clothes because I was looking for something that didn't exist. I had to try to create my own world.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

Creativity is very self-indulgent.

A citizen sticks to conventions, does whatever is social. Artists, of course, must reject all conventions. I see no differently in reconciling the best of both of these worlds.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

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

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

I'm a creator at heart.

I like to create something that's unique and kind of true to myself and authentic and everything. I don't really like to mirror myself after different artists.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

I feel like I'm just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.

That's the thing about creating. When you create, you create your own thing, whatever that is. It's always going to seep through in whatever you do.

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

I just want to be as creative as I possibly can.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.