Quotes About Creativity

Art is the daughter of pleasure.

Surprise is key in all art.

Genius is the art of taking pains

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.

We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

You can't control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.