Quotes About Creativity

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

All great art is a form of complaint

A work of art is an exaggeration.

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

Art is what separates us from the animals.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can't articulate.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.

At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.

It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.