Sunday, January 15, 2006

Creative Quotes

"Excellence is not a single act, but a habit. You are what you
repeatedly do."
-Aristotle

"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."
-Picasso

"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transfrom a yellow spot into the sun."
-Picasso

"Talent! What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way."
-Winslow Homer

"Art is the skill, that is the first meaning of the word."
-Eric Gill

"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
-Michelangelo

"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."
-Leonardo da Vinci

"Accept self doubt."
-Hillman Curtis

"One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond ones capacity."
-Auguste Renoir

"Those who do not want to imitate anything produce nothing."
-Salvador Dali

"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
-James McNeill Whistler