William E. Gladstone Quotes

I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.'

I love reality TV and everything, and it's something that I truly love to do, and I love the outcome of it; it's like my art. I consider my reality show as my art piece, and it's like a sculpture that I built; it's my baby.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through one’s own eyes-which means: the capacity to perform a rational identification- which means: the capacity to see, to connect and to make what had not been seen, connected and made before.

When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

I've always just wanted to tell stories, and create stuff, and I think "Creator" or "Director" would probably be the two words that I go to first.

Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.