Quotes About Creativity

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

Art is craft, not inspiration.

Art is the escape from personality.

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.

I, in the end, make art for myself.