Another word for creativity is courage.

Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident in an age like ours when cinema posters and magazines present us every day with a flood of ready-made images which are to the eye what prejudices are to the mind. The effort to see things without distortion demands a kind of courage; and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he were seeing it for the first time.

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.

Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.

Another word for creativity is courage.