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10 Great Quotes About Creativity
With Example Photographs

These are some of the best quotes I have found about the creative process and our work as photographic artists. They come from a variety of disciplines such as painting, sculpture, literature, and photography. These quotes and the photographs that follow are from my book: Experimental Digital Photography

NOTE: After I read John Neel's article here on Pixiq entitled: Notes to Myself — For Photography and Living — John Neel, I was inspired to do a similar article using quotes about creativity along with photographs to give examples of these creative ideas.

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust, author.

"I suppose I am interested, above all, in investigating the golden ability of the artist to achieve a metamorphosis of quite ordinary things into something wonderful and extraordinary..."
Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor.

"The 'mistakes' of yesterday...are today explored as interesting values in themselves, with great potential for evocative and expressive power."
Peter Pollock, author, The Picture History of Photography.

"To me photography is discovering rhythms, lines and gradations in reality."
Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer.

The artist "lives at a time of great scientific and technological breakthroughs. These discoveries uncover new frontiers of perception and offer new representations of the world. Access to what was until then invisible becomes possible."
Paul Klee, painter.

"He [Bragaglia - Futurist Photographer] saw untapped possibilities in photography as a means of experimentation, and was particularly attracted to its potential for capturing the sensation of movement – rather than ...sequential stages [as photographed by Muybridge and others]."
Carolina Tisdall & Angelo Bozzolla, authors, Futurism.

"Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction."
Alberto Giacometti, painter, sculptor.

"The joy of geometry – when you realize everything is right."
Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer.

"I think of my pictures as dramas; the shapes in the pictures are the performers."
Mark Rothko, painter.

"It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way – not his [her] way."
Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb, painters.

All work is copyright by Richard (Rick) deGaris Doble 2011.

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For more about my approach to photography see my book: Experimental Digital Photography.

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