Quotes About Creativity

The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about or even looking at.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

Art is a kind of illness.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

The joy of dressing is an art.

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

Art is a wound turned into light.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

Art has an obligation to offend

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.