Statements about art

Art, like life, is beyond the capabilities of the weak. Alexander Alexandrovich Blok

Art never dies. Gaius Petronius Arbiter

Sheet music is just the art of writing down ideas, the main thing is to have them. Stendhal

The picture should not be judged by the amount of time that is wasted on it without success, but by the ability and skill of the one who executes it. Michelangelo Buonarroti

With the help of art, nature creates miracles. Carl Linnaeus

There are people who show their art in slandering the arts. Hippocrates

What can't art do? “Women know how to cry beautifully!” They cry when they want and how they want! Publius Ovid Naso

A work of art is the highest work of the human spirit; it gives life, it perfects man. Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge

A thing that exists in nature becomes much more beautiful if it resembles an object of art, but an object of art does not become truly beautiful by resembling a thing that exists in nature. Oscar Wilde

A person who is not familiar with the art of horse riding will not undertake to give advice on how to break horses. But in morality we are less distrustful. Here we always consider ourselves knowledgeable and able to give advice to all people. Claude-Adrian Helvetius

Art is, in essence, science; this is what we should see in architecture. Etienne-Louis Boulet

The importunity of young amateurs should be treated with condescension; in adulthood they will become true admirers of art and its masters. Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Pitiful is the master whose work is ahead of his judgment; that master advances in the perfection of art, the works of which are surpassed by judgment. Leonardo da Vinci

Art is alive - through the living blood of sacrifices. Maximilian Aleksandrovich Voloshin

A work of art reproduces something - however, not only something past or present, but also something future. Karol Izhikowski

Science is spectral analysis; art is a synthesis of light. Karl Kraus

The main thing in oratory is not to let the art be noticed. Marcus Fabius Quintilian

It is more pleasant for an artist to paint a picture than to finish it. While he was writing, art itself delighted him. The adolescence of our children is richer in fruits, but their infancy is dearer to us. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (younger)

Life is learned from books and works of art, perhaps even more than from life itself. Theodore Dreiser

The arts go around the whole world and circulate like blood in our veins. Voltaire

Painting is a very specific art; it can only be an image of truly existing things. This is the language of nature, the language of the visible world. What we do not see, non-existent and abstract, does not belong to the field of painting. Gustave Courbet

Art never left man, always met his needs and his ideal, always helped him in finding this ideal - it was born with man, developed alongside his historical life. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Painting is a quiet art, and this, in my opinion, is its considerable merit. Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene Delacroix

A fine addition to the art of living and dying would be a book on the art of growing old, which would teach people how to gradually renounce their pretensions, the pleasures and courtships of youth, as age and illness approach. Richard Steele

Painting is an art through which the artist depicts passion through facial features and body position and moves the viewer with his sympathetic and ironic attitude towards the subject. Stendhal

No one except the artist can promote art. Patrons encourage the artist, this is fair and good; but this does not always encourage art. Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Art never addresses the crowd, the masses, it speaks to the individual, in the deep and secret recesses of his soul. Maximilian Aleksandrovich Voloshin

The art of drawing and painting itself are nothing more than tools that promote literature and, consequently, the enlightenment of the people. Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov

Among all the arts that nature has assigned to the human race, painting is the most pleasant and serves for useful amusement of the eyes and mind. Alexander Andreevich Ivanov

The highest purpose of art is to make the human heart beat, and since the heart is the center of life, art must constantly be in the closest connection with the entire moral and material life of mankind. Jean-Marie Guyot

Art is the ability to see the invisible, touch the intangible and draw what has no form. Joseph Joubert

For artists, constant touching of art dulls their aesthetic sense, replacing it with an aesthetic eye. Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky

In love, as in art, you don’t need to say what others have said: you need to say what you feel; and he who is in a hurry to speak when he still has nothing to say runs the great risk of never saying anything. Romain Rolland

Nature knows two minds:
the mind of animals and from God!

A donkey drinks water in the river -
tongue thirsty.
Man putting his palm up
invented the first glass!

And the pinnacle of beauty -
crater found in Pompeii:
centuries the rosary does not fade
naked dumbness...

Animals have keener senses
but what should they do in the museum?

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Statements of great people about art

Hippocrates
- Life is short, art is eternal!

Alexandre Dumas - son
- Art requires either solitude, or need, or passion. Whether he holds a chisel, a pen or a brush in his hand, the artist truly deserves this name only when he infuses soul into material objects or gives form to spiritual impulses.

Leonardo da Vinci
- Where the spirit does not guide the artist’s hand, there is no art.

Giordano Bruno
- Art makes up for the shortcomings of nature.

Salvador Dali
- Painting is a hand-made color photograph of all possible, super-exquisite, unusual, super-aesthetic examples of specific irrationality.

L. N. Tolstoy
- Simplicity is a necessary condition for beauty.

Honore de Balzac
- Constant work is the law of both art and life.

Hegel
- Genuine immortal works of art remain accessible and bring pleasure to all times and peoples.

Emile Zola
- A work of art is a piece of nature filtered through the artist’s temperament.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- Drawing for an artist is the same as for an orator in Demosthenes: he should be in first, second and third place.

Leonardo da Vinci
- Painting is poetry that is seen, and poetry is painting that is heard.

Anton Semyonovich Makarenko
- To refuse risk means to refuse creativity.

Boris Pasternak
- The purpose of creativity is dedication,
Not hype, not success.
When a line is dictated by a feeling,
It sends a slave to the stage,
And this is where the art ends,
And the soil and fate breathe.

Seneca
- The arts are useful only if they develop the mind and do not distract it.

Michelangelo

T. Dreiser
- Art is a powerful means of correcting human imperfections.

A. N. Tolstoy
- Perceiving art... is as difficult as creating it.

Cicero
- Everything beautiful is rare.

G. Flaubert
- All colors are good, you just need to know how to paint with them.

P. Picasso
- Why try to understand art? You are not trying to understand what the bird is singing about.

Euripides
- No, I will not leave, Muses, your altar... There is no true life without art.

L.N. Tolstoy
- Art is one of the means of uniting people.

V. Goethe
- We need an artist even in moments of greatest happiness and greatest misfortune.

Andre Gide
- Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the smaller the artist, the better.

Denis Diderot
- Art lies in finding the extraordinary in the ordinary and the ordinary in the extraordinary.

Michelangelo Buonarotti
- Art is jealous: it demands that a person devote himself entirely to it.

G. Hegel
- Art has as its task to reveal the truth in a sensual form.

Brecht Bertolt
- All types of arts serve the greatest of arts - the art of living on earth.

Alexandrov Georgy
- Higher art is a slice of time frozen for centuries.

Malevich K
- The time has long come to understand that the problems of art and the problems of the stomach are very far from each other.

Sand Georges
- The roads leading to art are full of thorns, but you can also pick beautiful flowers along them.

Leonardo Vinci
- Painting argues and competes with nature.

Helvetius Claude Adrian
- The task of art is to excite hearts.

Schiller Johann Friedrich
- Precisely because true art strives for something real and objective, it cannot be satisfied with only the appearance of truth.

Anatole France
- There is no need to be especially afraid of attributing to the artists of the past an ideal that they never had. Admiration is impossible without an admixture of illusion, and to understand a perfect work of art means, in general, to re-create it in one’s inner world. The same works are reflected differently in the soul of those who contemplate. Each generation looks for new emotions in the creations of old masters. The most gifted viewer is the one who finds, at the cost of a few successful false interpretations, the most tender and strongest emotion. Therefore, humanity experiences a passionate attachment mainly to such works of art and poetry that contain dark places that allow for the possibility of different understandings.

Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev (1906-99)

Letters about the Good and the Beautiful

Letter thirty-two
(fragments)

UNDERSTAND ART

So, life is the greatest value that a person has. If you compare life to a precious palace with many halls that stretch in endless enfilades, which are all generously varied and all different from each other, then the largest hall in this palace, the real “throne room”, is the hall in which art reigns. This is a hall of amazing magic. And the first magic he performs happens not only to the owner of the palace himself, but also to everyone invited to the celebration.

This is a hall of endless celebrations that make a person’s whole life more interesting, more solemn, more fun, more significant... I don’t know what other epithets to express my admiration for art, for its works, for the role it plays in the life of mankind. And the greatest value that art rewards a person is the value of kindness. Awarded with the gift of understanding art, a person becomes morally better, and therefore happier. Yes, happier! For, awarded through art with the gift of a good understanding of the world, the people around him, the past and the distant, a person makes friends more easily with other people, with other cultures, with other nationalities, it is easier for him to live.

But understanding works of art is far from easy. You have to learn this - learn for a long time, all your life. For there can be no stop in expanding your understanding of art. There can only be a retreat back into the darkness of misunderstanding. After all, art constantly confronts us with new and new phenomena, and this is the enormous generosity of art. Some doors opened for us in the palace, followed by others.

They often say about someone: he has innate taste. Not at all! If you look closely at those people who can be said to have taste, you will notice that they all have one thing in common: they are honest and sincere in their sensibility. They learned a lot from her.

I have never noticed that taste is inherited.

Taste, I think, is not one of the properties that are transmitted by genes. Although the family cultivates taste and from the family, much depends on its intelligence.

You should not approach a work of art with bias, based on established “opinion,” fashion, the views of your friends, or the views of your enemies. One must be able to remain “one on one” with a work of art.

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Nietzsche's aesthetics. "Art was Given to us so as not to Die from the Truth."

In one of his many interviews, Kurt Cobain once shared the following: “I was always an outcast, and it really bothered me. But there was no desire to communicate with classmates or peers. And only many years later I understood why this happened - they were indifferent to creativity.” And even today, most people perceive creativity as a kind of cultural element, and creators as superhumans or crazy. Using quotes about creativity, we will try to shed some light on this topic by talking about where creativity comes from, what it is and who they are

What is creativity?

Beautiful quotes can sometimes tell a lot about what creativity really is. For some, this is a true act of love. Some people are sure that creativity is an innate character trait that cannot be taught. To understand the full range of opinions, let’s present them in the form of quotes about creativity:

• “To create is to make thoughts easy by inventing new life possibilities.”
• “The ability to be creative is a natural gift. It is akin to beauty or a strong voice. An innate ability can be developed, but no amount of effort will help you gain it.”
• “The ability to be creative is a divine gift. The act of creativity is a great sacrament of the soul.”
• “Creativity is the moment of the present in which the future is created.”
• “Creativity is a feat that does not come without sacrifice.”

It's not easy

Creativity can be created in many ways, but at its core there will certainly be something personal. Mysterious aspirations and desires, a protest against everyday life, words that will never be spoken. And the one who says that creating is easy is wrong. In fact, as Baurzhan Toyshibekov said: “Creativity is created from one portion of ink and three portions of sweat.” To create something outstanding, you need to put in maximum effort every day. Constantly develop and work on yourself.

The difficulties in creating works of art are best described by quotes about the work of famous philosophers:

• Socrates: “Every creator is obliged to express his state of mind.”
• Plato: “Anyone can be a creator if he has something that inspires him.”
• Aristotle: “Art never says what is, it always shows what should be.”
• Voltaire: “Creation speaks of its creator.”
• Diderot: “The highest task of any creativity is to find the unusual in the ordinary and the ordinary in the fantastic.”

The life of a creator in exile

As Remarque said, creativity is always hidden under an unprepossessing shell. On the pages of history it is not often possible to meet a creative person who was always first in everything, lived a long and happy life, loved and was loved. Often, creators were betrayed more than once, expelled from their native country, not recognized during life, but praised after death. But they never gave up creating their works.

Once I asked a rhetorical question: “Why do kind, decent, creative people always give in to the gray masses?” It has always been and will be: creators are innovators. But everything new brings with it changes that are inconvenient and irritating, and therefore unacceptable at a certain time. Aphorisms about creativity can say a lot about how different types of art are born in such harsh conditions: from music to folk art.

Music, literature, painting

You can often find quotes about creativity that focus on one type of art, rather than the entire process as a whole. But if you think about it, if you replace the word “sketch” with “creativity”, the meaning of the phrase will not change. For example, here are the most common quotes:

• “It’s hard to part with someone you love. The melancholy of an ordinary breakup passes through several written songs, and the longing of a broken heart passes through several written albums.”
• “Every sketch, still life or landscape, is essentially a self-portrait.”
• “If a person thinks clearly, he will write the same way, and if his thought is valuable, then his writing will be valuable.”

What should a creator be like?

We can talk for a long time about what the meaning of creativity is, where it comes from in this world and how it affects people. But it is important to know what real creators should be like: interested, striving for perfection and not ready to admit their masterpieces are ideal. This is exactly what these quotes about creativity say:

• “Creativity is a mystery that the creator asks himself.”
• “Any creativity begins as a desire for self-improvement and holiness.”
• “Creativity helps preserve personality.”
• “To be the greatest master is to not recognize your perfection.”

What do celebrities say about creativity?

Celebrities also often talk about creativity. Most of their ideas are based on personal experience and observations. The most famous statements belong to designers, models, and actors. Their work is a little further from the stereotypical understanding, but nevertheless they know about it first-hand:

• Igor Moiseev: “I am happy when success comes in creativity, because I am glad to do what I am naturally destined to do.”
• Giorgio Armani: “You need to be bold in your ideas. When I experimented with cuts, no one recognized me, but over time, my crazy ideas became fashion.”
• Bruce Lee: “The creator creates himself, and this is much more important than the established system.”
• Tyra Banks: “No matter what you want to become, the most important thing is to pursue your passion, not the money.”
• Barbara Palvin: “To achieve your dreams, you first need to be able to create.”

Folk art

Russian creators also brought a lot to the world. Russian creativity is distinguished by its originality and dissimilarity from the creations of foreign geniuses. And for this, their works are respected and perceived as a unique heritage of the Russian people, which reflects culture, mentality, basic life values ​​and priorities. As Fadeev said: “A person manifests himself best through work and creativity.” And in a society where there are people with a desire to improve themselves, sooner or later such a simple phenomenon as folk art will appear. Quotes about folk art have never taken a leading position in terms of quantity, but nevertheless, several apt statements can be found:

• “Each type of creativity has its own joys, the main thing is to learn to take yours where it is.”
• “In creativity it is much easier to stop the moment.”
• “The highest recognition of a creator is when his work becomes popular.”
• “Folk art is intended to ensure that the beauty of the world, the call to fight, the breadth of the human soul and reason prevail over darkness.”
• “There is room for creativity in every job.”
• “Creativity is all the joy in life. To create means to overcome death.”
• “If the rooster had creative freedom, he would still continue to crow.”
• “A person who does not create is worse than a plant that gives oxygen.”

Bottom line

Beautiful quotes about creativity can be summed up in one simple word - freedom. From all the examples presented, it can be noted that creativity does not imply submission to norms. It is an act of free thought and action. The creator notices a special charm in everyday life and tries to present it to people. And each of them always puts into their works the memory of what they love.

They say that anyone can become a creator. Every person has the power to bring something innovative, interesting, and complementary to the world. But if the person himself does not say: “Yes, I can do it. I will create, no matter what!” - nothing will work out for him. Creativity is freedom, which begins with self-confidence and an absolute willingness to go against the system, defending your position.

The airbrush technique is quite complex and requires the use of additional materials. In this section we will talk about those that are necessary for making illustrations using an airbrush.

Just like any other painting technique, airbrushing allows you to create images on the surface of the base. However, its peculiarity is that

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Eight secrets that will allow you
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1. Correct construction of objects in space

This skill is the foundation for any professional artist. It will create a sense of volumetric space in your painting, which is very important. This alone will greatly improve your paintings.

2. Proper application of strokes

With the help of strokes, a background is created for the future volume of forms and objects - this is the main basis. When you learn how to apply them correctly, everything you draw will become more saturated and clear.

3. Tone stretching with a pencil

Another secret of the masters. When you learn how to do tonal stretching with a pencil from simple to complex, and dial in tone with pencils of varying softness, you will be surprised at how much more realistic your drawings will become.

4. The art of drawing three-dimensional figures

Another skill that separates people who are great at drawing from those who are new to drawing. This is the ability to give volume to objects that differ in shape, working with light and reflex, one’s own shadow and penumbra. These skills will make your work much better.

5. The ability to work with your own shadow on figures to add volume

This is also important to be able to do if you want to masterfully depict three-dimensional objects and create realistic paintings.

6. Effective construction of falling shadows

The type and shape of falling shadows depends not only on the figure cast by it, but also on the location of the light source. Once you have mastered this skill, you will be able to draw the falling shadows of various geometric shapes, but also apply this knowledge to objects of various shapes.

7. The ability to distinguish objects by tone

Thanks to this, you will not only be able to show the difference between objects and forms, but also indicate the compositional center, which is very important for constructing a composition.

8. Composition skill

But this is the most important knowledge that will “revive” your picture and fill it with meaning, will make the viewer think about what mood you were in at the time of creating the picture, what exactly you wanted to tell the viewer. Knowing composition will allow you to “say” with your painting what you cannot say in words...

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Creativity is a riddle that the artist asks himself.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909 – 1966), Polish poet and aphorist

Don't be proud - create.
God created the world in a moment of humility.
Grigory Landau (1877 – 1941), philosopher, critic

“Think first, speak later” is the motto of criticism; “Speak first, think later” is the motto of creativity.
Edward Forster (1879 – 1970), English writer and critic

Few people create anything creative after the age of 35. The reason for this is that few people create anything creative before the age of 35.
Joel Hildebrand (1881 – 1983), American chemist

Creativity gives birth to a creator.
Maxim Zvonarev (b. 1956), journalist

Dogmatism is the integrity of the spirit; he who creates is always dogmatic, always boldly choosing and creating what he has chosen.
Nikolai Berdyaev (1874 – 1948), philosopher

Mastery is when the “what” and “how” come together.
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874 – 1940), director

Only those for whom it will never come wait for their time.
Grigory Landau

His creativity reached a double bottom.
Wiesław Brudzinski (b. 1920), Polish satirist

The state of creative impotence, alas, does not prevent one from creating.
Leszek Kumor, Polish aphorist

All creativity is essentially prayer. All creativity is directed into the ear of the Almighty.
Joseph Brodsky

Creativity is a common endeavor, done by the solitary.
Marina Tsvetaeva

Every man is less than his most beautiful creation.
Paul Valéry

An invention can be improved, a creation can only be imitated.
Maria Ebner-Eschenbach

I close my eyes to see better.
Paul Gauguin

The work is a flawed design.
Alfred Schnittke

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.
James Whistler

Only the Almighty had complete freedom of creativity, and even then only on the first day of creation.
Maxim Zvonarev

Doing easily what is difficult for others is talent; to do what is impossible for talent is genius.
A. Amiel

Great talents are alien to pettiness.
O. Balzac

If talent does not have sufficient strength within itself to align itself with its aspirations and enterprises, it produces only empty flowers when you expect fruit from it.
V. Belinsky

The ability to create is a great gift of nature; the act of creativity in the creative soul is a great sacrament; a minute of creativity is a minute of great sacred rite.
V. Belinsky

The level of honor of society depends on the level of respect (even reverence, worship) for talent; there is no greater blow to honor than the triumph of mediocrity.
E. Bogat

Man's abilities, so far as experience and analogy teach us, are limitless; there is no reason to suppose even any imaginary limit at which the human mind will stop.
G. Buckle

The creator of poverty does not know.
Far from worldly bounties,
I am not busy with the extraction of wealth, -
He takes them out of their souls.
L. Boleslavsky

The great creations of the human spirit are like mountain peaks: their snow-white peaks rise higher and higher before us, the further we move from them.
S. Bulgakov

Where there is life and freedom, there is room for new creativity.
S. Bulgakov

It seems to us that people have a poor understanding of both their capabilities and their strengths: they exaggerate the former, and underestimate the latter.
F. Bacon

Ingenuity lies precisely in the ability to compare things and recognize their connections.
L. Vauvenargues

There are no more reliable patrons than our own abilities.
L. Vauvenargues

Some are colorless in the first row, but shine in the second.
Voltaire

It’s wonderful to invent yourself, but to know and appreciate what others have found is less than to create.
I. Goethe

He who is born with talent and for talent finds his best existence in it.
I. Goethe

No one knows what his powers are until he uses them.
I. Goethe

The ability is assumed in advance, but it must become a skill.
I. Goethe

Traces will disappear generations,
But talent lives, genius immortal.
M. Glinka

There is hardly the highest of pleasures than the pleasure of creating.
N. Gogol

You won’t learn the techniques of creativity. Every creator has his own techniques. One can only imitate higher techniques, but this leads nowhere, and one cannot penetrate into the work of the creative spirit.
I. Goncharov

If you don’t know how to hold an ax in your hand, you won’t be able to cut wood, and if you don’t know the language well, you won’t be able to write it beautifully and understandably to everyone.
M. Gorky

Talent is faith in yourself, in your strength...
M. Gorky

Great talents are products of painful passion...
J. D'Alembert

Man is glorified neither by gold nor by silver. The man is famous for his talent and skill.
A. Jami

Compared to what we should be, we are still in a half-asleep state. We use only a small part of our physical and mental resources. In general, we can say that a person lives in this way far beyond his capabilities. He has abilities of various kinds that he does not usually use.
W. James

Talent is one-third instinct, one-third memory, and one-third will.
K. Dossey

Talent needs sympathy, it needs to be understood.
F. Dostoevsky

Creativity... is an integral, organic property of human nature... It is a necessary accessory of the human spirit. It is as legitimate in a person, perhaps, as two hands, like two legs, like a stomach. It is inseparable from man and forms a whole with him.
F. Dostoevsky

What is talent? Talent is... the ability to say or express well where mediocrity will say and express poorly.
F. Dostoevsky

There are no incapable people. There are those who are unable to determine their abilities and develop them.
And since these problems are solved in childhood, it is primarily the parents’ fault. Without their help, the child cannot solve these problems.
V. Zubkov

True talents do not go unrewarded: there is an audience, there is posterity. The main thing is not to receive, but to deserve.
N. Karamzin

The talent of great souls is to recognize the great in other people.
N. Karamzin

Creativity is a high feat, and feat requires sacrifice. All sorts of petty and selfish feelings interfere with creativity. And creativity is selfless service to the art of the people.
V. Kachalov

The highest task of talent is to make people understand the meaning and value of life through their work.
V. Klyuchevsky

Talent is a spark of God with which a person usually burns himself, illuminating the path for others with his own fire.
V. Klyuchevsky

Who's stopping you from inventing waterproof gunpowder?
Kozma Prutkov

Talents measure the success of civilization, and they also represent milestones of history, serving as telegrams from ancestors and contemporaries to posterity.
Kozma Prutkov

Only in creativity there is joy - everything else is dust and vanity.
A. Koni

True talents do not get angry because of criticism:/It cannot damage their beauty,/Only fake flowers are afraid of rain.
I. Krylov

The relationship between intelligence and talent is the same as between the whole and the part.
J. Labruyère

Human talents are like trees: each has special properties and bears its own inherent fruits.
F. La Rochefoucauld

I maintain that a bad head, having auxiliary advantages and exercising them, can outperform the best, just as a child can draw a line on a ruler better than the greatest master by hand.
G. Leibniz

Talent must be encouraged.
V. Lenin

He who does not use his talents to teach and educate others is either a bad or limited person.
G. Lichtenberg

There is something rarer, more extraordinary, than giftedness. It is the ability to recognize the giftedness of others.
G. Lichtenberg

We are born with abilities and powers that allow us to do almost everything - in any case, these abilities are such that they can take us further than we can easily imagine; but only the exercise of these forces can impart to us skill and art in anything and lead us to perfection.
D. Locke

Everyone feels what their strength is, which they can count on.
Lucretius

What else is wealth if not the absolute manifestation of a person’s creative talents...
K. Marx

To strictly follow your inclinations and to be at their mercy means to be a slave to yourself.
M. Montaigne

"Impossible" is a word that can only be found in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon I

Ability means little without opportunity.
Napoleon

He who creates loves himself in it; therefore, he has to hate himself in the deepest way - in this hatred he knows no measure.
F. Nietzsche

Vocation is the backbone of life.
F. Nietzsche

Another person's talent seems less than it is, because he always sets too big tasks for himself.
F. Nietzsche

Creation! Here is a great salvation from suffering, a great relief of life!
F. Nietzsche

Creative work is wonderful, extraordinarily hard and amazingly joyful work.
N. Ostrovsky

The impulse to create can fade away just as easily as it arose if left without food.
K. Paustovsky

The creative process in its very course acquires new qualities, becomes more complex and richer.
K. Paustovsky

The highest talent will easily disgrace himself if someone who is too self-confident wants to measure his strength the first time in a matter that requires enormous preliminary information, maturity of mind in judgment and experience in life.
N. Pirogov

Only strong talent can embody an era.
D. Pisarev

Everything that causes the transition from non-existence to being is creativity.
Plato

It has long been noted that talents appear everywhere and always, wherever and whenever social conditions exist that are favorable for their development.
G. Plekhanov

What remains for a long time is born from an integral personality in pain and joy, in exactly the same way as life is born in nature. To reach within oneself this synthesis of the birth of personality, just as scientists reach protein synthesis, is a seductive and dangerous path of creativity.
G. Plekhanov

Essentially, in order to deeply appreciate the creation of what we call genius, one must oneself possess the genius necessary for such an accomplishment.
E. Po

The first stage of all creativity is self-forgetfulness.
M. Prishvin

Creativity is a passion that dies in form.
M. Prishvin

All of us, alas, are not equally suited for all things.
Propertius

When the sea is calm, anyone can be a helmsman.
Publilius Syrus

Always remain unsatisfied: this is the essence of creativity.
J. Renard

There is only one happiness: to create. Only the one who creates is alive. The rest are shadows wandering the earth, alien to life. All the joys of life are creative joys...
R. Rolland

To create is nothing other than to believe.
R. Rolland

To create - whether new flesh or spiritual values ​​- means to break free from the captivity of your body, it means to rush into the hurricane of life, it means to be the One who Is. To create means to kill death.
R. Rolland

Creativity is the beginning that gives a person immortality.
R. Rolland

What a pity that the offspring is unreasonable
Born from a sage:
Son does not inherit
Father's talent and knowledge.
Rudaki

What is the main sign of real talent? This is constant development, constant self-improvement.
V. Stasov

A vocation can only be recognized and proven by the sacrifice that a scientist or artist makes to his peace or well-being in order to devote himself to his vocation.
L. Tolstoy

Where labor turns into creativity, naturally, even physiologically, the fear of death disappears.
L. Tolstoy

Don't you know if you have talent yet? Give it time to mature; and even if it doesn’t exist, does a person really need poetic talent in order to live and act?
I. Turgenev

Talent, like character, manifests itself in struggle. Some people adapt to circumstances, others defend such necessary human principles as honor, integrity, and loyalty. The opportunists disappear. The principled ones, having overcome all difficulties, remain.
V. Uspensky

Where there is no scope for the manifestation of abilities, there is no ability.
L. Feuerbach

Over the course of life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
3. Freud

The creative personality obeys a different, higher law than the law of simple duty. For someone who is called to perform a great deed, to carry out a discovery or feat that moves all of humanity forward, for that person the true homeland is no longer his fatherland, but his deed. He feels ultimately responsible only to one authority - to the task that he is destined to solve, and he would rather allow himself to despise state and temporary interests than the internal obligation that his special fate, his special talent have placed on him.
S. Zweig

Let everyone know their abilities and let them strictly judge themselves, their virtues and vices.
Cicero

Great talent requires great hard work.
P. Tchaikovsky

The truth is the power of talent; wrong direction destroys the strongest talent.
N. Chernyshevsky

Talent... gives everyone double the price.
N. Chernyshevsky

Any person of average abilities can, through proper work on himself, diligence, attention and perseverance, become anything he wants, except a good poet.
F. Chesterfield

Brevity is the sister of talent.
A. Chekhov

Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for that all other pleasures no longer exist.
A. Chekhov

I generally don’t believe in the power of talent alone, without hard work. Without it, the greatest talent will fizzle out, just as a spring will die out in the desert, not making its way through the sands...
F. Chaliapin

Insomnia is the cradle of creativity.
I. Shevelev

In creativity, maximum output does not deplete, but tones.
I. Shevelev

Denial of one's talent is always a guarantee of talent.
W. Shakespeare

In fact, the creator usually experiences only grief.
L. Shestov

The creators of great ideas are very dismissive of their creations and care little about their fate in the world.
L. Shestov

Ordinary people are only concerned with passing the time; and whoever has any talent - to take advantage of the time.
A. Schopenhauer

Any worker, be it a writer, artist, composer, scientist, scientist or cultural worker, cannot create without being separated from social work and from life. Without impressions, delight, inspiration, without life experience - there is no creativity.
D. Shostakovich

Discoveries are made when everyone thinks that this cannot be, but one person does not know it.
A. Einstein