Quotes About Creativity

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to 'Wow! Huh?'

Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.

Art is for everybody.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art.

Art is a sense of magic.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

Why talk when you can paint?

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.