Quotes About Creativity

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

All my works are games, serious game.

I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it.

What can art really do in the face of atrocity?

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck.

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.

Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality.