Quotes About Creativity

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

If you want to change your art, change your habits.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.

Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.

I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not a substitutive process.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.