Quotes About Creativity

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

If you dance with your heart, your body will follow.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Art is doing something you really believe in.

Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.

That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.