Quotes About Creativity

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

The temple of art is built in words.

The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

Don't try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

Our art is an adventure. It is a dream come true.

Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.