Quotes About Creativity

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

Art's only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

He who loses the arts loses the culture.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare not abandon them any longer.

What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.

Art is an international language, understood by all.

Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.

Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.