Quotes About Creativity

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.

I've been arrested a few times, but I've never been in real trouble. Because what I do is art and even if it is illegal, Art is a universal activity, and artists are generally respected.

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

There is no art without a poetic aim.

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

These dog bones are just making art the way art should be made, without any overarching reference. Just for fun, if you can imagine that-art for fun.

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.

Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

There is no color line in art.

In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.