Quotes About Artistic Creation

#1. Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules ... data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.

L. Ron Hubbard

#2. Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

Salvador Dali

#3. Nine-tenths of all artistic creation derives its basic energy from the engine of repression and sublimation, and well beyond the strict Freudian definition of those terms.
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John Fowles

#4. Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the studio or writing or whatever, that's the closest moment [to creation]. And that's what keeps all these people addicted to getting back to that moment again.

Richard Ashcroft

#5. Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.

Rachel Kushner

#6. Pain is the erotic spice of sex. This wild, erratic thought flickers through my brain. And my Master is a Master Chef. What does that make me? Ah. I must be his edible, fuckable, artistic creation.

Nikki Sex

#7. A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in the depth of a person's being ... It is my belief that only in this Art Brut can we find the natural and normal processes of artistic creation in their pure and elementary state.

Jean Dubuffet

#8. Behind every creative act is a statement of love. Every artistic creation is a statement of gratitude.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#9. What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.

Franz Cizek

#10. Now, boys, you won't see this operation performed very often and there's a reason for that ... You see it has absolutely no medical value. No one knows what the purpose of it originally was or if it had a purpose at all. Personally I think it was a pure artistic creation from the beginning.

William S. Burroughs

#11. Rather the artist's delight in what becomes, the cheerfulness of artistic creation that defies all misfortune, is merely a bright image of clouds and sky mirrored in a black lake of sadness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual ...

Carl Jung

#13. Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#14. We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

Sigmund Freud

#15. Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

Pierre Bayard

#16. Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

Charles Frankel

#17. Having financial independence does not increase one's chances of independent, artistic creation whatsoever. Our conditioned behavior toward mimicry for the sake of market forces is an amazing syndrome. The watchtowers guide us well.

Fady Joudah

#18. Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

Albert Camus

#19. And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .

Hans Hofmann

#20. What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

Johan Huizinga

#21. The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist ... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

Plato

#22. Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Lascelles Abercrombie

#23. One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#24. Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

Kafu Nagai

#25. For Jascha, artistic creation was the most private activity in the world: the soul's sacred and solitary communion with itself. (p. 244)

Rebecca Goldstein

#26. New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.

Yayoi Kusama

#27. The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#28. Ultimately I live in the now with artistic creation, not what could or could not be in the future, if a creation appears timeless in somebody's opinion, it won't in others, that's not for me to guess.

Justin Broadrick

#29. To understand the limits and opportunities of algorithms in the context of artistic creation, we need to understand that the latter usually consists of three elements: discovery, production, and recommendation.

Evgeny Morozov

#30. There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.

Maria Montessori

#31. People say 'Women's Wear' is a scandalous, gossipy publication. Sure we have gossip; we also have some very, very solid business stories. We are a creation of this business, which is fast, mean, tough, sometimes artistic, sometimes horrible.

John Fairchild

#32. The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.

Sherman Alexie

#33. Creation and Free Will are constantly moving, hand in hand, like children traveling along a path full of impulses and inspirations.Through the use of the Dragonflame philosophy they become superior artistic beings able to enjoy and share the fruits of creative labor.

Lawren Leo

#34. Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

George Edward Woodberry

#35. That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

Dorothy L. Sayers