Quotes About Creativity

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization.

The arts are not a way to make a living.

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.