Auguste Renoir Quotes

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don't want to bore readers.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

The Man of Genius may at the same time be, indeed is commonly, an Artist, but the two are not to be confounded. The Man of Genius,referred to mankind, is an originator, an inspired or demonic man, who produces a perfect work in obedience to laws yet unexplored. The artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. There has been no man of pure Genius, as there has been none wholly destitute of Genius.

I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else could have created it just like that. When I make poems, I use the words we all use, but the order and the sound create a new power. This wood is someone's creation. We stumble through it's tendrils, as if we're crawling through the synapses of his mind.

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.