Quotes About Creativity

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

What is art? Prostitution.

Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

If you're mad at someone for being excited and inspired by your art then you're doing it wrong.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art.

When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.

It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.

If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius.

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.