Quotes About Creativity

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

Art is what everyone knows it is.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.

I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

Art is basically entertainment.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

An art book is a museum without walls.

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.