Quotes About Creativity

I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.

When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.

Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

An artist should have more than two eyes.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

There are some things which cannot be learned, though they can be studied. Among them are the laws of art—and the lawlessness of it, as well.

The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.