Quotes About Creativity

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

The idea is more important than the object.

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

A bone heals, a bruise fades, but art is forever

Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

Drawing is deception.

Sleep with rockstars...Support the arts.

Light is impressionism.