Serendipity
Art is magic. But how is it magic? Is it a metaphysical meaning? Does some personal force bring about a magical reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
Hans Hofmann
There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.
Philip Guston
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
Rene Magritte
Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.
Ann Jackson
The essential of painting is that ‘something’, that 'ethereal glue,' that ‘intermediary product’ which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting.
Yves Klein
The painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock
Painting is like magic to me. You touch the paper with colors and an image appears! A realist will tell you it's not magic at all but a science of understanding colors and textures. I'd rather look at painting as magic!
Brenda Grounds McCart
When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue.
Jeet Aulakh
The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.
Juan Gris
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
Paul Cezanne
Art is a mystery and it is the artist's vocation to journey through that mystery, dwell in it, experience it, and express it.
Claudio Ghirardo
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
Georges Braque
It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.
Georges Braque
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon
The magic of photography is metaphysical.
Terence Donovan
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
Maya Lin
The true work of art is born from the artist: a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.
Wassily Kandinsky
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.
Amedeo Modigliani
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman.
Ansel Adams
Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.
Bill Viola
I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies.
Elizabeth Ross
All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.
Max Beckmann
Wonder takes us beyond our limitations by providing an expansive breath of fresh air to sustain the soul of creativity, and creativity allows the spirit to thrive.
Linda Saccoccio
All good ideas arrive by chance.
Max Ernst
The unforseen event, the 'accident,' the unexpected all play a very large part in my creative play. I prefer to let the materials suggest the direction of a work.
Burnell Yow!
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