Quotes About Creativity

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn't need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn't need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

Where the material ends, art begins.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.