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Quotes About Creativity

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that
~ Christina Milian
Art = a mad search for individualism.
~ Paul Gauguin
Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.
~ Kiki Smith
I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.
~ Marcel Duchamp
In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.
~ Piet Mondrian
Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.
~ Patricia Piccinini
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
~ Pablo Picasso
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
~ Elbert Hubbard
These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.
~ Umberto Boccioni
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirts.
~ Francis Picabia
Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.
~ Jim Rohn
Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.
~ Henri Matisse
The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.
~ Georges Braque
I paint what I think, not what I see.
~ Pablo Picasso
If it sells, it's art.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
~ Arne Jacobsen
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
~ Paul Strand
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.
~ Bruce Lee
At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
~ Barbara Hepworth
Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.
~ Jean Dubuffet
Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians and so-called experts.
~ Unknown