Ob du selbst Künstler*in bist und Dich inspirieren lassen möchtest, oder ein Zitat für einen kreativen Menschen in deinem Leben suchst – z.B. für eine Grusskarte, – in diesem Blogbeitrag findest Du Worte zu Kunst und Kreativität, die berühren, motivieren und zum Nachdenken anregen.
Wenn Du über meinen Blogeintrag „33 Fun Facts über mich“ hierher gefunden hast, dann weißt du ja bereits dass ich schöne Zitate liebe (das ist nämlich Fakt Nr. 32) und sehr klärend und motivierend finde. Seitdem ich mit dem Malen begonnen habe, ergänze ich meine Sammlung an schlauen Sätzen laufend mit Zitaten zu Kunst, Kreativität und kreativem Schaffen, und habe hier 99 für Dich ausgesucht.
Stöbere gerne in dieser Schatzkiste an Weisheiten von großen Meistern wie Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock oder Andy Warhol, bekannten Autoren und Philosophen bis hin zu modernen Stimmen wie Elizabeth Gilbert und Rick Rubin. Viel Spaß dabei und schreib mir gerne einen Kommentar, welches Zitat Dich am meisten angesprochen hat!
Was ist Kunst? Inspirierende Perspektiven und Definitionen
1. Art is our one true language. It knows no nation, it favors no race and it acknowledges no class. It speaks to our need to reveal, heal, and transform. It transcends our ordinary lives and lets us imagine what is possible. – Richard Kamler
2. Art isn‘t in the tools, materials, equipment you use. It‘s in the way you see the world. – Rick Rubin
3. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. – Edgar Degas
4. Art is a man‘s refuge from adversity. – Menander
5. Kunst ist ein Abenteuer in eine unbekannte Welt, die nur von Risikofreudigen erkundet werden kann – Mark Rothko
6. Die Kunst ist die Tochter der Freiheit – Friedrich Schiller
7. Art isn‘t a result; it‘s a journey. The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and soul. – Seth Godin
8. The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been concealed by the answers. – James Baldwin
9. Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. – Childe Hassam
10. Art doesn‘t give rise to anything in us that isn‘t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be. – Kamand Kojouri
11. Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. – Keith Haring
12. Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. – Twyla Tharp
13. Art creates a profound connection between the artist and the audience. And through that connection, both of them can heal. – Rick Rubin
14. The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. – Jerzy Kosinski
15. Art is a way of recognizing oneself. – Louise Bourgeois
16. Art is the highest form of hope. –Gerhard Richter
17. Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness. – Anni Albers
18. Art is the most beautiful form of creativity. – Oscar Wilde
Kreativität und kreativ(es) Leben
19. Creativity is the natural order of life. – Julia Cameron
20. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. – Maya Angelou
21. A creative life is an amplified life. It‘s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting.– Elizabeth Gilbert
22. Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye. – Dorothy Parker
23. Mystery is at the heart of creativity – Julia Cameron
24. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. – Albert Einstein
25. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.– Jospeh Chilton Pearce
26. Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome. – Elizabeth Gilbert
27. Creativity isn’t a switch that’s flicked on or off; it’s a way of seeing, engaging and responding to the world around you. – Rod Judkins
28. What is creativity? The relationship between a human being and the mysteries of inspiration. –Elizabeth Gilbert
29. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. – Bill Moyes
30. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath
Zitate berühmter Malerinnen und Maler
31. The meaning of life is to find our gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. – Pablo Picasso
32. The world doesn‘t make sense. So why should I paint pictures that do? – Pablo Picasso
33. Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist. – Pablo Picasso
34. I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. – Vincent Van Gogh
35. I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, ‚he feels deeply, he feels tenderly‘. – Vincent Van Gogh
36. Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. – Vincent Van Gogh
37. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to. – Frida Kahlo
38. I am an artist of paint, making discoveries. –Helen Frankenthaler
39. I‘d rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do. – Helen Frankenthaler
40. There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. – Helen Frankenthaler
41. People will never understand what we are doing if they can‘t feel. All art is abstract. All music is abstract. But it‘s all real. We are all trying to bring that spirit, that spontaneous energy into our work. – Joan Mitchell
42. I love the idea that painting never ends, it is the only thing in the world which is both continuous and still. – Joan Mitchell
43. Art will never be able to exist without nature. – Pierre Bonnard
44. It isn’t until the painter has no idea what he’s doing that he makes good paintings. – Edgar Degas
45. The painting has a life of its own – Jackson Pollock
46. Painting os self discovery. Every good artist paints what he/she is. – Jackon Pollock
47. Talent is a pursued interest – Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting
48. A painting is not a picture of the experience, but is the experience – Mark Rothko
49. Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid. – Etel Adnan
50. Tell your own story and you will be interesting – Louise Bourgeois
51. I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract. – Ellsworth Kelly
52. The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. – Norman Rockwell
53. The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul. – Wassily Kandinsky
54. There are not musts in art because art is free. – Wassily Kandinsky
Die Kraft der Farbe in Worten
55. I prefer to live in colour – David Hockney
56. Color is a power which directly influences the soul. – Wassily Kandinsky
57. Color is communication. It can stir our deepest emotions, create a sense of spaciousness, and momentarily distract us from the unstoppable advance of time with sheer visual delight. – Brian Rutenberg
58. Bunt ist meine Lieblingsfarbe – Walter Gropius
59. All my feelings have the color you desire to paint. – Rumi
60. Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. – Oscar Wilde
Kreatives Arbeiten und der ‚Creative Process‘
61. If you know what you want to do and you do it, that‘s the work of a craftsman. If you begin with a question and use it to guide an adventure of discovery, that‘s the work of the artist. – Rick Rubin
62. Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them. – Annette Messager
63. As we all know deep down, it is not by submission, coolness, remoteness, apathy, and boredom that great art is created, no matter what the cynics might tell us, the secret of great art is what is most difficult. to learn: is is courage. – Boris Lurie
64. We do not always create works of art, but rather, experiments. It is not our intention to fill museums. We are gathering experience. – Josef Albers
65. Don‘t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it‘s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. – Andy Warhol
66. When you start working, everybody is in your studio — the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all your own ideas–all are there. But if you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left alone. Then if you’re lucky, even you leave.” – Philip Guston
67. What is true is that you are never alone when you’re making art. You are in a constant dialogue with what is and what was, and the closer you can tune in to that discussion, the better you can serve the work before you. – Rick Rubin
68. In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
69. The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it the breadth of vision and experience. – Alfred Stieglitz
70. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. – Julia Cameron
71. The heart of experiment is mystery. We cannot predict where a seed will lead or if it will take root. Remain open to the new and unknown. Begin with a question mark and embark on a journey of discovery. – Rick Rubin
72. Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow. – Kurt Vonnegut
73. It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly. – Claude Monet
74. Fantasizing about pursuing our art full-time, we fail to pursue it past-time – or at all. – Julia Cameron
75. Rather than talent or work ethic, the ability to push through doubts and uncertainties, is what marks the true artist. – John Keats
76. Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make. – Bruce Lee
77. If we go for the easy way, we never change. – Marina Abramović
78. Our job is to get out of the way of ourselves and let the art flow through us. – Kyle Cease
79. If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head almost nothing. – Marc Chagall
80. I begin with an idea, and then it becomes something else. – Pablo Picasso
81. The art you create is ultimately for you. Make something you love. – Rick Rubin
Inspiration und Motivation von Autoren und Philosophen
82. To paint is to love again. – Henry Miller
82. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. – Friedrich Nietsche
83. This world is but a canvas to our imagination – Henry David Thoreau
84. The world of reality has limits; the world of imagination is boundless. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
85. Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr. Seuss.
86. It’s a simple and generous rule of life that whatever you practice, you will improve at. – Elizabeth Gilbert
87. He who has a why can endure any how – Friedrich Nietzsche
88. Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I’m with you kid, let’s go. – Maya Angelou
89. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure – Joseph Campbell
90. Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. – Carl Jung
91. The one thing that you have, that nobody else has, is you! Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. Do what only you can do best – make good art. – Neil Gaiman
92. Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. You really don’t have a sacred space, a rescue land, until you find somewhere to be that’s not a wasteland, some field of action where there is a spring of ambrosia – a joy that comes from inside, not something external that puts joy into you. – a place that lets you experience your own will and your own intention and your own wish so that, in small, the Kingdom is there. I think everybody, whether they know it or not, is in need of such a place. – Joseph Campbell
93. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing – Walt Disney
94. And now that you don‘t have to be perfect, you can be good. – John Steinbeck
95. Manchmal ist das, was man sucht, bereits da. – Aretha Franklin
96. The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette – Henry S. Haskins
97. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time – Thomas Merton
98. People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of – Paulo Coelho
99. Jeder, der sich die Fähigkeit erhält, Schönheit zu erkennen, wird nie alt werden. – Franz Kafka
Ich hoffe, Dir hat diese kleine Sammlung gefallen, und Du hast Inspiration für Dich selbst oder eine kreative Person in Deinem Leben gefunden!
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Bis bald und bleib kreativ,
Julia
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