# Quote — Will Gompertz, Think Like an Artist

> In reality, artists are no more courageous or noble or single-minded than the farmers who go to extreme lengths, in extreme weather, to protect their herd. Or a restaurateur who—having waved goodbye to her last customer at midnight—hauls herself out of bed at 4 A.M. the following morning to make sure she’s at the market in time to buy the best produce. Or, for that matter, a master bricklayer who has calloused fingers and an aching back from days spent building a house.

- Author: [Will Gompertz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/will-gompertz.md)
- Book: [Think Like an Artist](https://www.leafyquotes.com/will-gompertz/think-like-an-artist.md)
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## More from this book

> Duchamp is a worthy role model. Added to which he believed passionately that anyone could be an artist and spent his life showing the rest of us how it is done. He chose fine art as the vehicle for his imagination, but his approach could equally well be applied to any area of creative endeavor.
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> His trick was to spend more time thinking than doing. He would pause for thought and ponder on life and creativity and how things might be. Which is what I’m going to do now.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/will-gompertz/think-like-an-artist/duchamp-is-a-worthy.md)

> It is, after all, our imagination that makes us human. Vincent van Gogh asked, “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” To which the answer is, I would have thought, boring, bordering on pointless.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/will-gompertz/think-like-an-artist/it-is-after.md)

> Creativity, like society, thrives when the individual elements fit within, and add to, a bigger picture.

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