Quotes About Creativity

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

Painting is more important than art.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

Art is a jealous mistress.

Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.

I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

To create art means to be crazy alone forever.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.