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Quotes About Creativity

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.
~ Paul Cezanne
Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.
~ Mona Hatoum
There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.
~ Bernard Rudofsky
Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.
~ Grimes
I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.
~ Christian Lacroix
It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong.
~ Jared Leto
I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.
~ Marina Abramovic
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
~ Hans Hofmann
For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
~ Vidal Sassoon
There's nothing more difficult than a line.
~ Pablo Picasso
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
~ William Blake
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
~ Oscar Wilde
In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul
~ Albert Camus
Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
~ Theodor Adorno
In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.
~ Bill Viola
The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the world they've created on film.
~ Howard Shore
Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.
~ John Gardner
Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.
~ Dziga Vertov
I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.
~ Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.
~ Frank Zappa
Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
~ Pablo Picasso
I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
~ Norah Jones