Quotes About Creativity

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

Originally, I didn't want to say too much about the art.

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.