Quotes About Creativity

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

Art is an escape from reality.

My fingers always seem busier than my mind.

All art is autobiographical.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects. But sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.

The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.

Live your Art. Don't think about it.

The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.