Quotes About Creativity

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

Art is an investigation.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.