Quotes About Creativity

I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

Fashion is above all an art of change.

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

All art is but imitation of nature.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.