Quotes About Creativity

Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn't trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.

A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored.

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

There is no art without contemplation.