Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.
People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Creativity is just connecting things. 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. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.
Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to her, but I didn't understand why I was so compelled.
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm always thinking about maths, even when I'm doing other things. A lot of the time you're going up blind alleys and it's very frustrating, but then you have a sudden rush of ideas. You can live off that for quite some time.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop.
Art is science made flesh.
Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.
The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.
