Quotes About Creativity

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use the word 'art' at all.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

Great artists need great clients.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.