Quotes About Creativity

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Each body has its art.

The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.

The only thing that is not art is inattention

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.

The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head