Quotes About Creativity

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.

When the guns roar, the arts die.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.