Quotes About Creativity

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

The art of drawing is the art of omission.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

Art's whatever you choose to frame.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle.

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Whether it be personal or musical, I just think Im a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.

Some people's photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that's fine. But that's not why I do them. I'm a gun for hire.

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.

There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.

Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!