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Quotes About Creativity

I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.
~ Unknown
The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.
~ Cecil B. DeMille
The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.
~ Unknown
Art is either revolution or plagiarism
~ Paul Gauguin
Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make.
~ Corita Kent
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
~ Brian Eno
Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.
~ Renzo Piano
I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.
~ Damien Hirst
There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
~ Roy Lichtenstein
In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
~ Susan Sontag
I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
~ Emily Carr
Art is a way of recognizing oneself.
~ Louise Bourgeois
I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
~ Christina Aguilera
Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.
~ Jean Baudrillard
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
~ Sol LeWitt
I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.
~ Eva Hesse
If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age
~ Karel Appel
Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.
~ Mary Wigman
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
~ Jeff Koons
I don't believe in an art that is not born out of man's need to open his heart.
~ Edvard Munch
Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.
~ Simon Munnery
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
~ Oscar Wilde
Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
~ Unknown
The camera basically is a license to explore.
~ Unknown