Quotes About Creativity

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have to get better every year.

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

Creating something that is universally beautiful. That is art.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have art.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

The art world, of all worlds, has room for everyone.

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.