Quotes About Creativity

Art is what you can get away with.

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.

I draw manga, therefore I am!

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

I paint my own reality.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.