Quotes About Creativity

It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.

Art is not to throw light but to be light.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.

All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

You're supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you're not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

art is the pulse of a nation.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.

A game played with serious problems. That's what art is.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.

I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years